There are many ways of defining carbon colonialism; when a company achieves carbon neutrality by ‘carbon offsetting’ in business; ‘carbon outsourcing’ in a large-scale economic system that only counts carbon in one part but not the other; the crackdown on ‘slash and burn’ practices; the fundamental critique of ‘carbon capture and storage’ which propagates the idea of ‘terra nullius’ i.e., empty space; or the idea of land as a place to ‘put’ pollution where emissions and waste are exported from rich countries to poorer ones.
Resource: What your T-shirt reveals about ‘carbon colonialism’ and the global economy’s vast hidden emissions
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