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Citation

Computing Net Zero

Author:
Lin, Cindy; Dryer, Theodora; Rodgers, Johannah
Publication:
Branch Magazine
Year:
2023

Environmental and climate justice coalitions have long identified problems with how words function in industry-oriented environmental projects and how language is used to advance false solutions to climate change. There are no quick-fix “solutions” to climate change. There are only responses, some of which can mitigate the effects of unabated natural resource extraction, and some of which may actually increase the damage and the unequal impacts of climate change. Computationally intensive carbon accounting and carbon capture projects are no exception...