{"id":8331,"date":"2021-09-01T11:47:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T18:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=8331"},"modified":"2021-09-01T11:47:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T18:47:56","slug":"opinion-worrying-about-your-carbon-footprint-is-exactly-what-big-oil-wants-you-to-do-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=8331","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Worrying About Your Carbon Footprint Is Exactly What Big Oil Wants You to Do &#8211; The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;&#8230;Carbon neutrality doesn\u2019t achieve any sort of systemic change. A coal-powered business could be entirely carbon neutral as long it stops some landfill gas in Malaysia from entering the atmosphere equal to the emissions it\u2019s still releasing. American fossil fuel dependence would remain intact, and planet-warming emissions would continue to rise. The only way to fix that is through politics, policymakers and legislation.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/08\/31\/opinion\/climate-change-carbon-neutral.html?smid=tw-share\">Opinion | Worrying About Your Carbon Footprint Is Exactly What Big Oil Wants You to Do &#8211; The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;&#8230;Carbon neutrality doesn\u2019t achieve any sort of systemic change. A coal-powered business could be entirely carbon neutral as long it stops some landfill gas in Malaysia from entering the atmosphere equal to the emissions it\u2019s still releasing. American fossil fuel dependence would remain intact, and planet-warming emissions would continue to rise. The only way to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8332,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8331\/revisions\/8332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}