John Oliver sets up his own business to call BS on carbon offsets

It's likely that John Oliver will set up a legitimate business to highlight the sheer BS of everything he says.

In this week's Last Week Tonight, the host set up his own carbon registry, Oliver's Offsets, to show how easy it is to set a goal without doing anything to reduce emissions.

Oliver explained the questionable corporate tactic of relying on carbon offsets to fulfill the net-zero emissions targets of a company in a high polluting industry instead of backing it up with actual actions to reduce emissions. It's part of the propaganda we buy into.

Carbon offsets are bullshit because you're a reasonably intelligent person and because you know exactly what show you're watching. He said that this thing opens for sad news and he's out of breakfast.

It's easy to say that you're reducing carbon emissions, but it's hard to prove it.

Oliver looked at what the world's largest net-zero pledging companies claim their offsets do versus what they actually do to reduce the amount of carbon they're sending into the atmosphere.

Oliver sets up his own carbon credits scheme so you can throw money at the problem.