Carbon offsetting is not warding off environmental collapse - it's accelerating it | George Monbiot

Wealthy companies are using the facade of 'nature-based solutions' to enact a great carbon land grabThere is nothing that cannot be corrupted, nothing good that cannot be transformed into something bad. And there is no clearer example than the great climate land grab.We now know that it's not enough to leave fossil fuels in the ground and decarbonise our economies. We've left it too late. To prevent no more than 1.5C of heating, we also need draw down some of the carbon already in the atmosphere.George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...