Imagine standing on a crowded city street, the hum of cars and buses surrounding you. Each vehicle releases invisible carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide trails into the atmosphere. Now picture a factory on the outskirts of town, its smokestacks spewing gases as it powers industries and produces goods we consume daily. These small, everyday […]
While Tesla boasts itself as a clean-energy company, it is also thriving by selling carbon credits to companies that have not quite figured out how to reduce their emissions. In 2023, Tesla earned nearly $1.79 billion from selling carbon credits, bringing its total earnings from such credits since 2009 to nearly $9 billion (Jennifer L, […]
Why Growth Isn’t Always Good Imagine a world where the economy grows endlessly, but rivers run dry, forests disappear, and inequalities widen. This is not dystopian fiction, it is the trajectory of our GDP-focused world today. As early as 1972, the Limits to Growth report warned us that unrestrained economic expansion, driven by industrialization, would […]