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The Forest for the Carbon

Outside/In

NHPR

Society & Culture, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Nature, Science

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

A carbon offset is a simple premise: if you take a cross-country flight and are responsible for a half ton of carbon emissions, spend a few dollars to fund the growth of a half ton worth of carbon in the form of a forest. A fossil fuel company can do the same: buy offsets to write off emissions and call it green. But is this just another form of greenwashing? Do carbon offsets bring us closer to carbon-neutrality? Featuring Kaarsten Turner Dalby, Heather Furman, Charlie Stabolepszy, Barbara Haya, Jim Shallow, and Adeniyi Asiyanbi. Sign up for the Outside/In newsletter. Every two weeks we’ll send you episode extras, occasional call-outs to participate in our episodes, and our reading list. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello outside in listeners this is same Evans Brown officially totally back from

0:04.7

paternity leave now we totally back I mean I do have double the number of children at

0:10.0

home as I had previously so I would say my attention is divided. But I'm here in the studio with

0:16.0

producer Taylor Quimby and Justine Paradise, mostly because it's lonely in the pandemic times and I would like someone to talk to.

0:25.6

Just kidding. I have you here because this episode will require a bit of talking it out, some discussions of moral quandaries.

0:30.8

Okay. quandries. So why don't, can we just start with a quick introduction and sort of like what

0:38.7

it says on your business card? Sure. Am I supposed to know what's on my business card?

0:45.0

I mean someone's...

0:47.0

Can I pull it out?

0:49.0

So that is Kirsten Turner Dalby.

0:52.0

Kirsten was aDallby.

0:52.6

Kirsten was a literature major as an undergrad

0:55.8

and she started out very predictably working

0:58.3

for environment and conservation non-profits.

1:02.1

Do you mean that predictably literature majors often go into the environment nonprofits?

1:06.0

Well, I mean, if there are people that I interview.

1:09.0

It was really, I think, because I wanted to be Edward Abbey?

1:12.0

See the monkey wrench guy?

1:13.2

The guy who wrote monkey wrench?

1:14.2

Yes.

1:15.2

Right, monkey wrench gang, desert solitaire.

1:17.6

He's like, it was like 60s and 70s decades environmental writer.

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