{"id":5060,"date":"2015-09-28T19:42:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T19:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moralfactory.com\/?p=60"},"modified":"2015-09-28T19:42:56","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T19:42:56","slug":"carbon-credits-a-solution-or-a-ploy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moralfactory.com\/?p=5060","title":{"rendered":"CARBON CREDITS: A SOLUTION OR A PLOY?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his encyclical <strong>Laudato si<\/strong>&#8216; Pope Francis puts a clear question mark to the strategies of &#8220;buying and selling carbon credits&#8221; (171). At the Conference &#8220;Our Common Home&#8221; (www.bc.edu\/commonhome)  John Holdron (Assistant to President Obama for Science and Technology) said the Vatican to be <strong>too dismissive towards technological or market solutions to climate change<\/strong>. He might be <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">right<\/span> if those solutions were driven by economy and new types of profits only! He might be <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">wrong<\/span> if those solutions are part of a comprehensive moral framework using all the trigger points making the moral factory work!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The strategy of buying and selling \u201ccar- bon credits\u201d can lead to a new form of specula- tion which would not help reduce the emission of polluting gases worldwide. This system seems to provide a quick and easy solution under the guise of a certain commitment to the environ- ment, but in no way does it allow for the radi- cal change which present circumstances require. Rather, it may simply become a ploy which per- mits maintaining the excessive consumption of some countries and sectors.&#8221; (Laudato si&#8217; 171)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his encyclical Laudato si&#8216; Pope Francis puts a clear question mark to the strategies of &#8220;buying and selling carbon credits&#8221; (171). At the Conference &#8220;Our Common Home&#8221; (www.bc.edu\/commonhome) John Holdron (Assistant to President Obama for Science and Technology) said the Vatican to be too dismissive towards technological or market solutions to climate change. He&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moralfactory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moralfactory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moralfactory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moralfactory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moralfactory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.moralfactory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moralfactory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moralfactory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moralfactory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}