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In Scotland, ‘green lairds’ are buying vast estates for carbon credits | Locals fear the “green rush” will result in even more extreme concentration of land ownership in a warming world. (wapo.st)
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[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Isn't the proliferation and protection of undeveloped wilderness the whole point of environmentalism?

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

Protection of it has been in the US, where such places exist, and have been preserved as public land.

Land-based carbon credits are largely fraudulent though, so what's going on here is a huge consolidation of ownership by the wealthy into the hands of a bunch of scammers. That does not generally end well.