BackupRainDancer
I have expertise here and in my opinion I think this is fantastic. For those unaware, the scope 3 mentioned in the article is everything (all emissions from) upstream and downstream of your supply chain. If you make automotive engines that’s everything from pulling and refining steel to shipping it to you AND all of the dealerships carbon AND customers.
The reason imo this matters is that this is fucking hard. It’s hard because you need life cycle analysis and some of the tech is so advanced who knows when we’ll have the right emissions factors for them. Heck even the epa is 2 yrs behind on the egrid publications.
The other reason this is hard is that if your steel supplier doesn’t want to comply then, well, f you. But if you can make everyone report their scope 3s it will get everyone up to speed and cut out all the weird contract footsie with requesting your vendor comply and do green shit.
Loved my dynavap, the only thing that took it out of my rotation was the upgraded danivap fusion. It just feels so much less conspicuous with the wood steam for some reason.
It’d be an uphill battle but if someone got into programming via free online courses they could build a resume via collaborating with projects on github. It’d be a way to prove skill without the diploma.
Advice goes the same for anything where you can build a portfolio to demonstrate competency, most people in industries just care about results. This could be photography, graphic design, a physical labor like wood working etc.
Sucks because you’d have to outlay time upfront before maybe getting payed though. Ymmv
If only these poor oil producers had some sort of half century or more lead to reap the benefits of their export advantage and diversify their interests. Won’t someone think of how unfair it is to ask them to change? /s
I think what bothers me most is the 2060 ‘comittment’ under their own ‘methods’. Smells like abusing shady EAC/RECs or the carbon sequestration tech we keep hearing is bunk.
Theoretically if the scope 3 legislation across the world had teeth we’d see companies doing business with China having much higher than average emissions factors in their reports. Hopefully we’d see the market correct but not likely when oceans are hitting 101 and yet ‘climate talks are always challenging’ still.
The only thing I hope is that the insurance companies bring a reality check sooner rather than later.
I feel like you think this until someone who ‘knows someone’ or otherwise benefits from nepotism gets to walk all over you and the facade of a system breaks down.
The fact alone that the courts in the us were packed with political interests during 45 already means the system is broken as your case could be “made an example of” at any time at any donors behest. That’s the fundamental form of redress in a civilized society and we can’t even guarantee that anymore.
Fuck no society (or at least my country) does owe me, I pay taxes. Quite a bit due to where I live actually, I’m not upset about it but I get fuck all for it. And I’m just a working class person, I don’t have any connections … Imagine all the people just avoiding taxes.
Tax me more, honestly just give me working infrastructure, healthcare and other things that a functioning country should have. I’m so sick of footing the bill for all these fucking bailouts and subsidization of private interests, the do nothings in Congress are the real freeloaders. And yet they’ll bitch at you when you suggest we allocate some of the funds from the military into making sure our ‘strategic highway’ systems bridges dont just fall over.
I don’t mind paying but the service sucks 😭
My unpopular opinion is that if you evade all of your tax responsibility as a company you should have no legal protections in said country but they’d never bite.
Amazon’s semis and delivery trucks provide how much wear and tear on the highway grid but how much do we get in taxes for allowing that? $0 (maybe not exactly but you get the gist).I mean fuck cars but most Americans want working roads too.
And no it’s not smart to avoid taxes, that’s bad business that hurts the entire system in the long run.