
Putting Carbon Back Into the Ground
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What Are Carbon Credits?
There's this idea of carbon offsets and clearly what you are doing if you can figure out how to do it at a reasonable price, right? You're taking stuff that would have gone into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide and putting it in the ground approximately forever for as long as we care about. There are other kinds of carbon offsets that seem more slippery to me, right? Like I have a tree in my backyard. If you give me a hundred bucks, I won't cut it down, right? But there is this universe of carbon offsetsThat have been kind of like that, right? It's like a hostage situation. Exactly.
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