Carbon Offset Shipping?

[DadSmith]

I got this in a tracking email from a place I bought an item.
How exactly do they do this?
It has usps tracking number.

 

[Karl-just-Karl]

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I got this in a tracking email from a place I bought an item.
How exactly do they do this?
It has usps tracking number.

Googleable.

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Whenever a package is shipped, the amount of emissions used to do so are calculated so carbon credits can be purchased to offset the emissions.

Didn't know this was a burgeoning aspect of industry. Learned something today.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Googleable.

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Whenever a package is shipped, the amount of emissions used to do so are calculated so carbon credits can be purchased to offset the emissions.

Didn't know this was a burgeoning aspect of industry. Learned something today.

Carbon credits are the biggest sham ever. No carbon is actually reduced, but money is spent to assuage someone's guilt.

 

[Karl-just-Karl]

Carbon credits are the biggest sham ever. No carbon is actually reduced, but money is spent to assuage someone's guilt.

Agreed. My overall impression is that carbon credits are just another wealth-transfer scam.

The shippers are doing it for virtue signaling/marketing. The costs (I'm guessing, but pretty sure) are passed along to the consumer...again.

So the shipping company gets good PR advertising, the purchased carbon credits collects extra money taken from the consumer and sends it to a third party (from whom the carbon credits are being purchased) that shall go unnamed.

 

[Ironhippie]

Agreed. My overall impression is that carbon credits are just another wealth-transfer scam.

The shippers are doing it for virtue signaling/marketing. The costs (I'm guessing, but pretty sure) are passed along to the consumer...again.

So the shipping company gets good PR advertising, the purchased carbon credits collects extra money taken from the consumer and sends it to a third party (from whom the carbon credits are being purchased) that shall go unnamed.

Yup

 

[Bugzilla]

Life on earth cannot be without carbon.

 

[tsm]

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I got this in a tracking email from a place I bought an item.
How exactly do they do this?
It has usps tracking number.

Reminds me of the movie War Games. Somebody should tell the shipper the only way to actually reduce carbon emissions is “Not to ship!”

 

[Leo]

You know those green things on the nice green trees that turn brown and fall off? They start emitting Hydrocarbons even before they fall off.

If you try to dig a hole and bury leaves, the hydrocarbons from prior centuries of rotting vegetation rapidly emit hydrocarbons into the atmosphere.

If a log lays on the ground and rots away, it emits almost the same amount of carbon over time, that it emits if you burn it in a fire pit.

Don't be surprised if all these tree hugging greenies will want to start charging carbon tax on your trees and making you seal your law with plastic.

Carbon credits for the environment, indeed......

 

[04FXSTS]

I think I just recieved a package from FED-X that put out an excessive bit of carbon. Started in GA sent to Indy then back to KY then to Chicago. At least from there it went to Layfette and then delivered to Eugene. Drove me nuts reading the up dates. Jim.

 

[Jeepster48439]

I think I just recieved a package from FED-X that put out an excessive bit of carbon. Started in GA sent to Indy then back to KY then to Chicago. At least from there it went to Layfette and then delivered to Eugene. Drove me nuts reading the up dates. Jim.

I'm surprised they figured out that it didn't need to go to the PNW as part of the trip.....

 

[Bugzilla]

You know those green things on the nice green trees that turn brown and fall off? They start emitting Hydrocarbons even before they fall off.

If you try to dig a hole and bury leaves, the hydrocarbons from prior centuries of rotting vegetation rapidly emit hydrocarbons into the atmosphere.

If a log lays on the ground and rots away, it emits almost the same amount of carbon over time, that it emits if you burn it in a fire pit.

Don't be surprised if all these tree hugging greenies will want to start charging carbon tax on your trees and making you seal your law with plastic.

Carbon credits for the environment, indeed......

Well you do notice in all the sci-fi movies of the future how void of vegetation the landscapes are.

 

[printcraft]

Well you do notice in all the sci-fi movies of the future how void of vegetation the landscapes are.

All those freaking vegans stripped it clean.

 

[HoughMade]

Let's see.

There are 2 guys who run businesses. Guy "A" uses fuel to manufacture and ship products, Guy "B" doesn't.

Guy "A" uses 10 carbon units a year. The Guy "B" uses 2.

The government arbitrarily says that both of them are limited to using 7 carbon units a year. However, Guy "B" can sell his excess carbon units to Guy "A".

At the end of the day, Guy "A" uses 10 carbon units. Guy "B" uses 2 Carbon units.

The only difference? Guy "B" pays taxes on the income from selling the mostly fictional carbon units, 3 to Guy "A" and the rest to others. Also, the government probably charges a transaction fee to transfer the units.

So what has changed? Nothing except money is changing hands, some to Guy "B" who likely has connections to whoever invented this system and some to the government.

 

[Bugzilla]

Let's see.

There are 2 guys who run businesses. Guy "A" uses fuel to manufacture and ship products, Guy "B" doesn't.

Guy "A" uses 10 carbon units a year. The Guy "B" uses 2.

The government arbitrarily says that both of them are limited to using 7 carbon units a year. However, Guy "B" can sell his excess carbon units to Guy "A".

At the end of the day, Guy "A" uses 10 carbon units. Guy "B" uses 2 Carbon units.

The only difference? Guy "B" pays taxes on the income from selling the mostly fictional carbon units, 3 to Guy "A" and the rest to others. Also, the government probably charges a transaction fee to transfer the units.

So what has changed? Nothing except money is changing hands, some to Guy "B" who likely has connections to whoever invented this system and some to the government.

Enron comes to mind along with several other pollution laws of the past.