Claire G’s Reviews > This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate > Status Update

"When the Big Green groups refer to offsets as the 'low-hanging fruit' of climate action, they are in fact making a crude cost-benefit analysis that concludes that it's easier to cordon off a forest inhabited by politically weak people in a poor country than to stop politically powerful corporate emitters in rich countries."
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"When the first study arrived in September 2013, [...] it made news by identifying fugitive methane leakage rates from gas extraction that were ten to twenty times lower than those in most other studies to date.

But the study's design contained serious limitations, the most glaring of which was allowing the gas companies to choose the wells they wanted inspected."
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