What confuses me is that everyone is pledging net-zero by some date but emissions keep rising. So somehwere someone is "laundering" emissions. A quick perusal of the offset-credit industry shows that there is massive recycling (reuse) of credits, relabeling of existing sinks as offsets and all the financial engineering and shenanigans that happen when commons are financialized.

This all makes me very skeptical of lean towards the opinion that climate salvation lies in an alternate energy source which makes fossil fuels uneconomic.