Shell's Latest Marketing Scam

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Shell is selling climate neutral gas. We investigated.
Thank you to Benjamin Gehrs, Sven Selbert, Faye Holder, Dr. Franziska Müller and Astrid Geisler.
00:00 Intro
03:11 Shell's Campaign
05:19 The Shadow Industry
08:12 The Projects
16:02 A Broken System
21:06 The Secret Strategy
Sources: docs.google.com/document/d/1Y...
Music:
Artlist
Speedy The Spider - Bring In the Clowns
Gravel in My Shoe - Harry Edvino
Tristan Barton - Fighter
IamDayLight - 2020
Freaknik (Instrumental Version) - Xavy Rusan
Alon Peretz - Song for Heather
Per Diem - Marten Moses
When You're in the Dark - Smartface
Backwards Walk - Stationary Sign
Before Nightfall - Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen
Control Sample - Skrya
Formalities - Guy Copeland
Granny's Basement - Stationary Sign
Bishara Haroni - Gnossienne No. 1
Situational Analysis - Guy Copeland
Reveal the Truth - Philip Ayers
Jamie Bathgate - Atmo
Jimmy Svensson - Dark Blood
Turncoat - Michael Rothery
Palm Blue - Ripples
Radial Symmetry - Guy Copeland
Hangover Weekend - Stationary Sign
Turncoat - Michael Rothery
Enemy Territory - Dream Cave
Mainlander - Dream Cave
Falconeer - Lovren
A Mellow Mood - Dream Cave
Nobou - Particles
No Gravity No Certainty - Experia
Support - Wendel Scherer
Mogli The Iceburg - Ghost (Instrumental Version)
Ekans - Molife
V.I.P.N - Balance
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[@fern-tv]

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[@Quovio]

Please add the captions🙏🏿

[@zackatwood2867]

I only clicked to downvote, so tired of "biG OiL bAD" mantra, aint ya'll funded by some huge conglomerate?

[@Av-vd3wk]

“Carbon Credits” are such a joke…who are you Kidding????

[@Ittoswetboosay]

@@Av-vd3wkwell they are real, just google it

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

Soviet microdistrict vs USA suburb

[@janushistoria8226]

Oil companies: making a pledge to reduce your personal carbon footprints makes a big difference in the fight against climate change and pollution. Me: I pledge not to spill 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

[@Bo_Peeps]

Not me, I spent a hard day at work today throwing car batteries in the ocean. 😂

[@kariusbaktus165]

Did you know BP invented the "carbon footprint" idea? They are sleezy af these companies

[@gugancapuzzi1855]

@@Bo_Peepskeep up the good work, if we all do our part, the world can be that much worse 😊

[@Idkpleasejustletmechangeit]

I pledge to not buy that much shit. This won't change anything about my life, since I already do not buy much shit, because I don't have the money for that. I'm doing my part to save the world!

[@guatf1]

​@@Bo_PeepsYeah well I just do what I can to not destroy the world more then it is already, but giving extra money to an oli company or any other multinational for that matter because they will "safe" the world is not on my list. Throwing battery's in the ocean isn't on that list either tho

[@solarpunk9994]

The "socially conscious" trend from these mega conglomerates is the scariest thing to come out in a while. any company that actually enacts the change that they are claiming to is going to be met with infinite distrust

[@SECONDQUEST]

Been happening for a long time

[@tux_duh]

I mean this totally isn't a recent phenomenon. When lead was out in gas the scientists knew the effects, hell the entire world knew what lead did for a while by the time lead gas was made. But it was efficient and cheap and worked well until lead poisoning became too widespread to ignore

[@thenitroshop9377]

C02 feeds the planet... nothing at all wrong with C02 emissions, atmospheric C02 is the most critical source of plant food on the planet, if C02 levels were much lower then they are today our planet would starve to death, all crops would fail, most plant life would die off... Climate science is dead wrong and none of you are informed enough to even know better... same fakery as Covid science... Truth is you people are so misinformed that your voting rights are a threat to national security, your heads are full of crap

[@josephmother2659]

Back in the good old days, it was socially conscious to recommend smoking cigarettes and drinking brandy to anyone and everyone

[@Vid_Master]

Investors understand all "green" efforts are false, because if these companies were actually going to do anything meaningful, they wouldnt be able to compete with all other companies

[@tarekihaddaden9512]

Oil companies are like the mafia 😂 They come and say “wouldn’t it be a shame if something happened to this beautiful forest?” “But not to worry. If you buy our extra expensive fuel, we will make sure your forest doesn’t get cut down. Just remember if you don’t buy the extra expensive fuel, you will have chosen to have the forest cut down. That wouldn’t look very good when your friends see that you support cutting down trees just because you want to save a penny.”

[@PickeringSamuel]

Exactly the thoughts I had ha. What a mess.

[@voxbury]

Once again kicking back the responsibility to the consumer and not themselves. Just like the littering campaign with the crying “Indian”.

[@hoogyoutube]

Woah, “for over 60 years” and shows article that says 1970. Unsubscribed

[@ericdanielski4802]

Nice joke.

[@gscgaming.]

@@prodapiool3349who’s gonna tell him

[@seanpower5328]

​@@prodapiool3349you know thats theirs other channel it's a joke

[@eliass.9287]

ha g

[@prodapiool3349]

@@seanpower5328 yeah ik their other channel cuz im german :)

[@sorenkair]

it's almost like they're threatening to destroy these forests if you don't pay them to not do so

[@geordiejones5618]

The major corporations of the world could legitimately hold us all hostage by refusing to sell major resources until their demands are met, and people think the military would help us in that case? Lol we are truly in the earliest earliest stages of the corporate era of global empires. People better start throwing their lives away into the cause now or it'll never happen.

[@neusyns]

Or, are they needing funds to fight the legal battle. Granted all of this is controlled opposition. I'm not saying overpopulation can't be a thing but it's simply not in our modern state or even in the next 1000 years. Literally all of the worlds population of humans can live inside the state of Texas in 10x10 buildings. There is no overpopulation going on. Just a psyops to take more money and regulate your life for profit because if you don't follow those regulations guess what? You get fined. And how do you follow those regulations? You guessed it, YOU pay more for tools with special regulators and filters that are actually totally unneeded and virtually useless

[@tomlxyz]

Even if all offsets were backed by actually preventing a forest from getting cut down, you'll still add co2 to the atmosphere, ideally you just prevent it from getting double. Realistically they'll just cut a different forest down

[@thesynthax7948]

And it's a ridiculous premise to begin with, when we keep pumping billions of gallons of carbon rich oil out of the ground that can never be put back. We either find a new way to capture that carbon or we burn the planet and die.

[@xxxuselesspricksxxx1481]

furro furro

[@FreakAzoiyd]

If you prevent a specific forest from getting cut down or burned, it is very likely that the deforestation in the surrounding area is just larger and compensates (in the negative direction) most of the "conservation". Which in turn is great for the CO2 certificates created, so you can just increase the number of certificates created out of thin air or someone's hypothesis, because the deforestation in your comparison area increases even more...

[@golemgoats]

Most of the protected forests for carbon credits were never in risk of being cut down in the first place

[@tomlxyz]

@@golemgoats I'm aware but even if it was, your CO2 emissions wouldn't magically disappear. I'm saying that not only they aren't delivering what they promised, what they promise doesn't actually solve the problem even if fully implemented

[@TheApeMachine]

I used to work for one of these shady in-between companies. Surprising you didn't mention them, South Pole, given the massive controversies that happened this year. If you ever want to dive even deeper into this, because even this in-depth report you made on this, which I am super happy about to see someone finally picking up on this, let me know. I have (internal) data that will blow your mind. You know people from Shell, BP, Exxon, etc. all sit on the boards of companies like Verra, IETA, and all the rest? The ICVCM, which is the new way this market is going to regulate itself, is headed by the same woman who headed the SEC and introduce deregulation, right before the ENRON and Worldcom collapses happened :p As good as this video was, it covers maybe 5% of what is really going on.

[@michaneitzel37]

This video is a translated reupload from their German channel where it was already published almost a year ago.

[@fern-tv]

Please email us with more info :)

[@TheApeMachine]

@@fern-tv No problem, though there does not seem to be an email address on your channel I can find :)

[@wolfgangpreier9160]

And now compare their values with Saudi Aramco.

[@chupasaurus]

@@TheApeMachine Channel page, click on "and 1 more link" link and you'd get About pop-up.

[@notpointed]

The CO2 for gasoline was dug out of the ground. The only way to "offset" that would be to put CO2 back into the ground, not let it accumulate somewhere on the surface.

[@tristanridley1601]

Unfortunately those credits would be at least 23 cents a litre (and maybe five times that if the recent new technology isn't quite what it promises) just for the tailpipe emissions. Too expensive for most people, so they choose the cheaper lie.

[@emmanuel_40]

CO2 is a net positive and the hate for it is a socially engineered scam. Actual climate change factors get ignored in favor of reinforcing investment returns.

[@M3Busssin]

You do not seem to understand how any of this works. CO2 is not dug out of the ground and used for gas, CO2 is released out of the exhaust of a motor when gasoline is combusted by the motor. The problem is there is too much CO2 in the air because too much gasoline is being combusted. Offsetting this would be planting a ton of trees, because trees eat up CO2 and pump out Oxygen. There are other ways to offset CO2, but the best way to turn the climate emergency around is to reduce your CO2 output.

[@planefan082]

​@@tristanridley1601It's not a good marketing strategy to acknowledge the only way to use your product sustainably costs more than not using it at all

[@user-cj6sd6wt8j]

Yeah but it's the actual practical and effective way to do it. You ever heard of air Filterration or anything that claims carbon fixation? It's not practical since the energy consumption which will cause positive net carbon production.

[@MaikuBoy1]

I have heared before that carbon credits are a bad idea, but this video fundamentally made me understand why this is the case. Good job!

[@highperformancelifestyle2602]

Actually, carbon credits might not be such a bad idea IF big companies promoted system change BUT the focus on individuals, calculation methods of indigenous discrimination, calculation, generalization, extrapolation and oversight

[@geargeekpdx3566]

I've worked for Shell's advertising agency a long time back (one of dozens of agencies on their account) and was made aware that their spend on marketing was primarily made up of greenwashing and what we call "Hocus-Focus" in the bullshit biz. I wrote a mini-documentary "funded by Shell" (aka "propaganda underwritten and tasked by Shell...) about how awesome their deepwater drilling history was and all the records for depth and size etc. I did suggest we have a metric on how many dead seabirds her platform world record would be fun (this obviously not to the client...not many laughs in the room even at the agency). They are evil incarnate.

[@BS-bd4xo]

Instead of protecting forests who are being deforested right now, they try to protect forests that aren't under any threat at the moment. It's like bringing someone to the hospital that might get sick, instead of the guy who's bleeding.

[@kentario1610]

But it's cheaper to "protect" forests that weren't under threat and just sit back as the country enforces the already present protections, than to go out and actually stand in the way of real deforestation and protect at risk areas. The second costs _money,_ don't ya know. /s

[@mista414]

What grinds my gears is that Shell, BP, etc knew decades ago that burning oil was not good, and instead of working on alternatives they just suppressed and passed the blame. Like, they wouldn't have to worry about losing their industry if they had positioned themselves as more than just an oil company. They're certainly big/profitable enough. Maybe that'd be an antitrust thing if they cornered the energy market that heavily, but idk maybe things would have played out differently.

[@enemyunknown8181]

sorry what kind of idea is that? we dont cut down a forrest so give us money? Sorry but if someone cuts down forrest it should cost money because its adding carbon. you dont offset carbon you add carbon and pay for a white vest. there is no neutral in that.

[@TheRealDarklight]

If 3 cent per liter could buy a carbon-neutral fuel, we wouldn't have a problem.,

[@thesilentpearl8575]

Exactly. We emit 36.8 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide annually. If the US alone buys all the credits and save the entire world (at $15 a metric ton), it will only represent 2.3% of its annual spendings

[@thesilentpearl8575]

The US emits 22% of the CO2 out there, which might not sound a lot until you realise that the US only contains 5% of the world population.

[@tristanridley1601]

The actual price should be between 23 cents and $1.15 (USD) per litre, depending on how honest the latest DACC technology is being. (That's .20 to 1.00 euros per litre or $0.87 to $4.35 USD / gallon. USD/litre is an odd unit to use, given Americans...)

[@thesilentpearl8575]

@@tristanridley1601 yeah around that. Anything other than DAC is just greenwashing. But even then wtf are we gonna do with the CO2

[@captainpoptarts]

Fun fact All the companies who would eventually be "champions of green energy" are the current shady energy and oil juggernauts who are already on top like shell. That is if they go green. As companies looks at this from an economical approach, in the long term, they will need to rely on renewables before they run out of fossil fuels. How long until they fully move over is anyone's guess. But the transition requires more CO2 emissions from expanded lithium and cobalt mining (which both will hopefully become less destructive once cobalt recycling gets more popular), likely deforestation, and other negative environmental problems.

[@alicethegrinsecatz6011]

Fun fact: The reaction of the world to these kinds of news was always: “Oh no! Anyway…“ 😞

[@liamcollinson5695]

I agree I believe it's similar with e cig companies

[@danilooliveira6580]

and that is why if every country in the world started to create laws to reduce oil extraction maybe 40 years ago we would probably be in a good place right now as all those companies would have been forced to transition their investment to green energy. if the only purpose of corporations is to make money, just create laws that guarantee being sustainable is more profitable.

[@Praisethesunson]

It's not a guess. Fossil fuel companies are expecting 3.2°C warning at minimum by 2100(with 5°C by 2100 being what to expect if fossil fuel conglomerates aren't forcefully stopped, which does not include any runaway impacts that could result from that's warming). And those companies will drive us all to heat death with the same level of concern you give to what you will have for lunch today.

[@anthesaurus5671]

Thank you for talking about stuff like this in such an entertaining and easily accessible way!

[@stellviahohenheim]

shut up

[@ham_fisto]

Thank you for using the Kari Byron clip in the beginning. I had that ad pop up repeatedly in my KZbin watching a while back, and it was incredibly disturbing to see one of my childhood heroes enthusiastically shilling for big oil with the same nerdy quirkiness she put into mythbusting. Perfect microcosm of how twisted these companies are. Truly, we are in hell. I hope the money was worth it, surely Kari understands the reality of climate change and how this ad makes her look...

[@TheNightwalker247]

They didn't just do greenwashing they systematically fought against science. As you point out

[@johanjvdw]

The graphical work on this was absolutely sublime. A joy to watch and it made the information much easier to digest.

[@K0sm]

This channel releasing banger after bangers

[@christianh7138]

They are a successful German channel, so all the research was done before and now they just have ton translate the videos, but still nice to have frequent high quality videos

[@ryanborges0]

I've been looking for a KZbin channel with this kind of content, this is brilliant.

[@SJITZ]

I remember an interview with the Shell CEO. Asked how they could justify selling stuff that's so bad for earth, she responded with "the demand is simply there". I loved that. So fucking perfect she chose the exact same answer as a drug dealer would.

[@luminescentlion]

This would make a great companion video for Climate Towns recent video on Saudi Arabia's green washing.(cool to see him included at 1:45)

[@fern-tv]

were huge Climate Town fans, his content is always fantastic :)

[@SnapshotOfASoul]

They opened up a Shell where the old gas bar used to be - a local establishment in a sea of corporate megabrands that we'd frequented for around 25 years, since it opened. I knew many people who worked there. But, the lease was up, they were out, and Shell went in... only to start playing ads on all of their new, shiny pumps. The place is always deserted now, which for a city is a hard ask - people heard about all the relentless ads being blared the second you lift the nozzle and decided to skip pulling into the station.

[@SincerelyFromStephen]

A shame to hear about Aldi being complicit in this but they are a corporation so I can’t be shocked

[@guest_4416]

What do you expect from ALDI??

[@maximusg88]

I don't think any company can really claim that they are green... In most cases, their own communications teams probably have no clue about the background of these claims... They should do their due diligence, though

[@jackpeterson6670]

I just had an Aldi Ad in the middle of the video lol

[@danilooliveira6580]

nothing will be more devastating than seeing Kari Byron making propaganda for oil companies.

[@andrzejostrowski5579]

There is a source of energy that could be used to replace fossil fuels quickly. Sadly, successful lobbying made it hard and expensive to build this type of power plants. Some countries even decided to stop using this particular source of energy - I’m looking at you, Germany! Also,this source of energy happens to be the only one that can successfully replace fossil fuels without the need of any imaginary fictional technology, and has the lowest carbon emissions of absolutely all sources of energy.

[@mgzz7869]

yeah, nuclear is the best

[@thesilentpearl8575]

Nuclear has its own issues though. I’m not saying it shouldn’t be done, but it comes with its own consequences.

[@skoovee]

@@thesilentpearl8575 examples, I can think of it taking a long time to build, therefore needing things like solar and wind to transition to nuclear

[@thesilentpearl8575]

@@skoovee solar and wind are better alternatives than nuclear for sure

[@skoovee]

@@thesilentpearl8575 No they are not, they are a good transition into nuclear

[@Pr0toPoTaT0]

This video is straight quality dude. No imitations here. I love it, keep up the great work and look forward to being with you on your journey to 10 million!

[@UnAutreCompte-zr6eo]

We appear to have collective amnesia, Shell's whole history is knowingly damning humanity while lying about it to make sure that no one stop their operations. It's ridiculous to pretend that suddenly they care about the planet they've insisted to destroy for years and years.

[@bktan6132]

But in the end, corporations are people inside them. Until they can be sued and imprisoned personally nothing will change. And of course why would those laws be enacted when those running them are in bed with the politicians?

[@SEThatered]

Carbon NFTs to try to save face while doing nothing.

[@joel17waters]

Have seen this sort of video and research before, its great to see more about it adding the its authenticity! I hope the people will start seeing through the nonsense they're sold and make real changes that have impacts, but I fear the powerful companies will simply not allow it.

[@dwaynecallow8152]

But they aren't telling the truth about the go green campaign with solar and wind farms, all the governments pushing it are only pointing out the pro's but not disclosing the cons. It's not carbon neutral to make and export or to run, a lot of it is just lies as they claim their country is lowering their Co2 output but in reality are just transferring where the emissions are created. They transport the mined materials to a country like China that are pumping out emissions because they aren't part of the farce, they claim to be a developing country to get away with it or just blatantly say no, then the goods are made their then have to be transported all around the world. Wind farms require diesel for the motors that get them turning to begin with and oil to lubricate whilst running, that's why when they carch on fire they burn for ages. Solar panels create silica dust which is as healthy as asbestos, they are made from coal and quartz, then require more coal to burn to produce, the only renewable part really is renewing them when their lifespan is over, they claim to be 95% recyclable but only 5% are recycled so they still go to landfill, windfarm blades are being crushed up to use in furnaces to create cement, so billowing out smoke. And at the end of the day these renewables still require the mining and emissions output. It's just basically replacing one bad with another bad but as long as it sounds good people believe it is good

[@rubyjohn]

I despise Shell as much as the next guy but this issue doesn't seem specific to Shell. The whole carbon offseting genre within the ESG industry is shady as hell.

[@Yomotomen]

A very large portion of teslas value is derived from them earning and selling carbon credits to perpetuate this problem too, such a disgrace all of this is.

[@sirrivet9557]

Yeah definitely, I think they're just using shell as an example to keep the focus of the video narrow

[@guillermoelnino]

Shady implies there's there is room to believe something could be evil. There's no doubt it is.

[@adamaitouahmane6519]

I came across this channel because I was watching a lot of neo and IMPERIAL's content, I have been a consistent viewer ever since, when you upload it's automatically a good day

[@marleymars2223]

Studying this stuff in school years from now is going to be hellish

[@5353Jumper]

Well that is optimistic that there is going to be schools years from now.

[@gfries4906]

If school actually did teach this, I think it would be enjoyable, but it seems unlikely. Corporations already have the education system by the neck. Look at Adobe.

[@StarWarsExpert_]

I'm glad you do these deep diving researches that reveal the things going on behind the curtains of cooperation websites! Keep up the good work. I love it!

[@cesarherediaaguirre4419]

The idea of associating credits to a theoretical CO2 emission that doesn't even exist is completely absurd! It's like me saying "I'm giving you credits that offset the water you use by making sure no theoretical water is being wasted in the deserts".

[@rzpogi]

What's funny Pilipinas Shell(Shell Philippines) doesn't bother doing these greenwashing campaign here. They know the population is still highly reliant on fossil fuels, but there is slow shift towards simple mobility(walking, biking, mass transport), and demand for end of fossil fuel reliance.

[@glennkrieger]

Two thoughts. The first is that trees actively absorb huge amounts of CO2, not just store it. Every new leaf or branch sprout is built on the carbon atom it absorbed from the atmosphere as CO2. The second is that CO2 is not the problem. A deep deep dive into what's happening will show that several planets in our solar system are undergoing climate change in the last ten years also. Every planet has warmed up 0.5 - 1.0 degrees C in the last 6-7 years, starting with Pluto/Neptune (pick whichever) and slowly moving towards the sun. The winds on every planet have changed, some stopping altogether or completely reversing (Neptune). Pluto had a very thin atmosphere but it has collapsed recently. Jupiter's winds have changed and slowly are eating away at the "Great Red Spot". And so on. The Earth is just in the midst of these solar system changes, but to acknowledge this doesn't make any money. In addition, wild fires and volcanos in recent years are pumping out so much CO2 that what we do is pale in comparison. What humans do is but a drop in a bucket compared to what's been happening. But, acknowledging any of this doesn't make any money either.

[@tbu_drachenkater5397]

Late night upload. Loving it

[@periperisalt441]

prolly targeting the American audience with the upload times!

[@reevil402]

Shell's Marketing department doesn't like this.

[@rishi8377]

This is leaving the fact that how Shell destroyed the entire country of Nigeria and continues to do so

[@mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmaria]

can you recommend any videos or articles?

[@rishi8377]

@@mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmaria check out "how one company destroyed an entire country" by moon

[@alisilcox6036]

The implicit issue with carbon credits if you take the claims at face value, is that they simply can't be remotely functional as a proportional response to emissions, because they arent reversing deforestation or increasing the rate of carbon capture at all, but reducing the loss. And the current trajectory of the climate is that it will deteriorate, not recover, even if all deforestation stopped and emissions stayed the same. So assuming carbon credits are universally adopted, honestly, and accurately reflect the carbon footprint of the production which they are tied to, *even* if that involves the expansion of protected areas to every single stretch of net-negstive-carbon land on the planet - the climate disaster continues, just doesnt accelerate. To say nothing of these production systems eventually being in conflict with the very protections they pay for and the lack of any apparent intention to scale carbon credits to protect most or all of the natural carbon sinks on the planet, just paying more to protect the same three or four relative slivers of land per company. Similarly as these companies inevitably switch to rebewables, for whatever reason, these protectiosn tied to the market system dry up and create opportunities for exploitation - i.e. the very adoption if renewables removes a market motication to be sustainable for other production systems like palm oil palntation etc.

[@l.k.3113]

Es freut mich so sehr, dass dieser Kanal von euch so schnell wächst. Ihr habt das verdient!

[@PapaphobiaPictures]

I've said for a while that carbon credits should only be available for directly sequestered carbon. If they directly deposited organic waste from paper, etc, into the ground rather than have it be released, then that's a credit. Every tonne of carbon (biochar) deposited into the forests should be the credit; not just a threat that they'd cut it down otherwise

[@whoknocks7]

addicted to your content. found you channel not long ago and been consuming your videos, they are so well made and sometimes the hidden jokes are the best

[@witnesskfc]

The moral conundrum is, that despite the concept of a carbon neutral policy, any body who does a campain about "saving a nature area" is just them possibly not letting extra emissions get freed, and instead justify with that their own emissions, as if the emissions are not still happening. These bodys of companies or even countries obviously have done a great job of banishing this fact into the shodow realm.

[@Grasslehoff]

The fact that Shell wants us to believe that the trees they "save" will just _Ctrl+A Delete_ all their CO2 from the atmosphere is so sad that it's almost funny again

[@thesilentpearl8575]

Lol

[@guillermoelnino]

Carbon is not pollution

[@Grasslehoff]

@@guillermoelnino saaaaay what now?

[@guillermoelnino]

@@Grasslehoff Just because a politician puts on a lab coat doesn't mean what he says is truth.

[@Grasslehoff]

@guillermoelnino the fuck are you on right now? Anything becomes pollution if there's too much of it. Stupid people too, evidently.

[@realSpicySicilian]

As someone getting a degree in forestry, my natural resource management had a big focus on carbon credits. The term for what shell and others are doing circumventing responsibility through loopholes is called, leakage. The majority of replanting nonprofits are not legit and most are harming the environment by killing biodiversity. Restoring the environment is very, very, expensive. It is cheaper to do large scale with the higher initial upfront cost than small scale over time. I've noticed one major trend, investors are not held accountable for any investments that cause environmental harm. There are people like me, who want to fix shit, but can't because everyone is so insanely greedy, they only care about their profits and how to pull one over on another for a buck. There needs to be major change, but even then it may already be too late. Yet, still someone needs to be held accountable. Additionally, many forest management methods are demonized and attacked by people who know *nothing* about the environment. Slash and burn, a common practice in South America, one being stamped out by governments. Slash and burn is typical with agroforestry and home gardens (not raised flower beds), and this practice actually increases biodiversity. Fires are a natural part of the system, while many wildfires are man caused, it can be argued our ancestors used fire in the landscape for hunting, etc. so it co-evolved with us. But extreme fire suppression for decades has caused immense harm. Last point: Everything that feels broken seems to be anything regarding paper-pushing jobs and bureaucracy. Which makes sense why the people pushing papers and writing the bureaucracy are also the ones making the most money.

[@toptapir]

It's like saying: buy our fuel now, or these poor trees WILL be cut down and you will be the culprit for it 🤨.

[@Joshualacruz]

I think it's also interesting to think about how rich these companies are. If you just look at how expensive an small ad in a local newspaper is, you realize why the big ad space is only used by huge companies. Shell and friends (who are all very smart with money) believe it to be more profitable to spend (read: "throw away") millions and millions on international ad campaigns with shameless propaganda, instead of actually working on the problem. Just imagine for a second what solutions these super companies could come up if they actually tried. Why should I, middle class person, struggling to just get by, pay extra money to Shell? It's insane.

[@Matty002]

anyone who tries to tell you theyre trying to change instead of just doing the changes is always either lying, trying to cover something up, or both

[@studentjahodak]

Amazing work, keep it up. Love the format

[@ileana8360]

Great video. Thank you! Carbon credits to me always smelled of scam. Would be interesting to know, if there is ANY kind of backlash for the Dutch Royal Family.

[@zacharywolter]

My favorite carbon credit are the credits issued for "planning" to take a flight and then canceling it

[@felixostermann5072]

rly love all your viedos, rly interesting and i always learn something new that i didnt see 10 videos about on my frontpage before.

[@S..K_]

Awesome video about an important topic. The issue makes you sad and angry and yet I felt entertained watching the video. Thanks ❤

[@neusyns]

You know the owners of this page made the best presentations in school. Whyd they make us go as kids when my thirst for knowledge only started as an adult

[@lorenzoscarpellini9477]

Each video i’m more and more impressed by the quality of investigative journalism that you independently provide

[@mynameisjeff.]

But you can't punish governments/land owners for conserving their forests just because they didn't already have plans to deforest. It's good that they already had them protected and they deserve to be compensated for that. The system that will work is to allow all forest/jungle land to sell a credit on a time based system. 1 acre, 1 year, 1 credit for example. This gives economic value to not removing the forests

[@extremesportsify]

Thanks for covering this!!

[@liamcollinson5695]

I am disappointed in kari i feel since she is a ex mythbuster so surely unlike a lot celebrities who promote things the don't understand. In this case she probably knows is all bs she is not a stupid person

[@-mr-brokken1471]

i would love to see how carbon neutral google actually is since they were the first massive company to claim it. btw great video guys

[@nature_nightowl]

I'm usually watching the german version,but this version is as funny and informative as the other. I think I am going to watch more of the english videos.(Of course I keep watching the german version too).Just a little help for you:)And a new sub. Keep up the amazing work up!❤

[@DANNYonPC]

The Last Week tonight episode on this was good

[@zacharyhenderson2902]

Let's say I have a farm that's half fields and half forested. I can start a carbon offset project clammy to protect that for us from being cut down and turned into a field in exchange for money. What these projects will often do then is remarket the same forest and pledge not to turn into pasture land, generating twice the funds from the same land.

[@Notapizzathief]

Wow, that's so insanely gaslight-y, though I would expect nothing less from the fossil fuel industry at this point...

[@RishikaSinghthetraveler]

the carbon offsetting is not only for oil companies , most companies are doing it and claiming to be "green"

[@reelenz]

Overall good video. However the “BPs core business must end asap” is pretty irresponsible. People will think that is tomorrow when that simply isn’t possible. Renewables have been a huge failure until we can store that energy efficiently, and we would have to dig up so many metals out of the ground for the next 30 years it would do more harm through that time.

[@jmcdonald6063]

I saw a poster a few months back in a gas station here in sask Canada. A poster from shell talking about "saving the rainforest". Thought it was funny, glad your shining a light on this.

[@nature_nightowl]

I'm usually watching the german "version",but this version is as funny and informative as the other. I think I am going to watch more of the english videos.Just a little help for you:)And a new sub. Keep up the amazing work up!❤

[@lxedk]

Where can you watch the German videos?

[@mostepic_nomnom90]

​@@lxedk the german original "simplicissimus"

[@papierbak]

And thats why the EU is trying to ban greenwashing

[@grandetaco4416]

So carbon credits are a scam? NO WAY! 😱 Wow something I've known for over 20 years. The carbon credit idea was broken from the start, this was always about making money not about addressing a problem. Just like taxes the final bill is given to middle income and the poor.

[@derekadair5320]

Hey man i appreciate you showing your credits at the end. Very humble. Cheers!

[@ardentambivalance]

Another insane video, i cant wait to see what else you guys put out, truly amazing investigative content

[@yes24__]

it's honestly so frustrating and depressing.... like it seems so helpless for there to be a end to climate change and an end to greenwashing gas companies

[@TimmyKo]

So is it the oil companies that are bad? If people want and need oil, someone has to extract it. Unless they don't do it in a much dirtier way than other companies do, then it's okay, isn't it?

[@tristanridley1601]

Irrelevant. This is still a big lie from them. Actual offsets would cost 8 to 40 times this amount. Even if you absolutely love big oil, you should be able to admit that selling a cheap lie is wrong.

[@TimmyKo]

@tristanridley1601 Lying is obviously wrong, but in this case it doesn't matter. Nobody buys oil because of greenwashing. Oil is just needed. Otherwise just boycott this company if they are lying to you.

[@guillermoelnino]

@@tristanridley1601 if it fools a climate cultist I'm all for it.

[@tonda9808]

amazing work fern team!

[@nicok2648]

Ernsthaft Leute... Die Stimme ist euer Markenzeichen und hat derben wieder-Erkennungswert, solltet ihr in fern weiterhin nutzen...cheers

[@xeijix]

Get these damn companies to deal with their own wastes. We need to get companies that uses plastics to handle recycling plastics directly and these fossil fuel companies to handle direct-carbon capture.

[@manifestingabel]

Thank you for shining a light on this :)

[@m9078jk3]

My father (A USAAF B-17 Flying Fortress Pilot/Aircraft Commander) had a bombing mission on one of their refineries in Ploesti,Romania back in 1944

[@AmerBoyo]

I mean so many thoughts, but foremost in my mind is that save perhaps the pear forest, none of these projects sequestrate (store) carbon away, and therefore in my mind are redundant. The simple fact is, we need to stop any more FOSSIL carbon from entering the atmosphere- and ideally store any excess carbon back underground where it belongs, in a stable form & state. In short - time to “go electric” & go all-in on renewables and battery storage - though not perfect by any measure, it’ll go a long way to keep CO2 from continuing to build up in the atmosphere.

[@_Z0T4R_]

Ive got YT Premium yet I got a double-ad?! 😅 (Not counting the Brilliant ad)

[@ABHAY_DEV_ARYA]

Which software you are using for contant creation ❤

[@loquas9741]

Thanks for sheding a light on this This topic needs more research

[@pheith2535]

Can you give us some recommendations on what we can do and where we can donate to avoid these frauds? I love your content but the amount of corruption in this world has made me give up and i want to do something at least for myself to hope for a better future.

[@sharabhshukla7918]

When it said, the company's CEO is a former investement banker, I knew it was a scam. Anything that is done by an investement banker is a scam, as they have no skillsets other than being a scamster.

[@Lioin]

The irony of the way they pronounce "Katingan" sounding like "cutting down"...

[@nerdexproject]

Brilliant work guys!

[@ebbflow]

For anyone consider an ELECTRIC Vehicle please do your research on the amount of resources, how these resources are mined, where and by who, it takes to make a battery. Please also remember that at the end of the day your electric vehicle is actually a fossil fuel vehicle because at least in the united states more then 70% of electricity is produced using oil and coal. Also please consider that lithium isnt very stable in colder climates. Also remember that electric vehicles have batteries that need replacement significantly sooner then a gasoline engine will. Please also consider that 80% of a gasoline car can be recycled and that while you can recycle lithium batteries its extremely costly, energy intensive, and not very practical. Thanks. A gasoline car owner.

[@kenos911]

And of course, guess what Natixis’ CEO’s “early life” section says… These people are getting out of hand.

[@cracked21]

Can't believe you're the same guy from Simplicissimus! Thank you for helping me learn German!

[@kezia8027]

gfdi first adam savage starts shilling for apple and now kari shilling for shell. Makes me think Jamie had the right idea to just disappear. I still have a very high opinion of him...

[@ItzRetz]

I get that the pay would have been really good, but I really expected Kari to be better than to shill for oil companies.

[@xenyakodo]

I have a funny feeling about carbon offset schemes, as an EV user and someone who tries to support renewable energy. I realise that it’s all a scam, but… The big corporations are being scammed first… Right? Like if we all just didn’t change our buying tactics due to carbon offset marketing, all of the money they are spending will just be lost. I’m not even saying that people should use renewable energy, since that can be expensive. Just ignore carbon offset marketing and hope that the big guys don’t notice that offsets are not worth buying for as long as possible.

[@Enelkay.]

Paying polluters and capitalists to refrain from cutting down forests is insane, its also completely side stepping the realer issues and causes of global warming

[@woobyvr9654]

Shells goes on about working towards net zero, they could just not exist that would help a fair bit

[@swimmerboy172]

It’s like saying you are protecting the Sahara from being settled when literally no one was ever considering living there. Or volunteering tutoring time for Harvard students and taking credit for their success, lol

[@loquas9741]

I bought this plot of ocean to prevent it from drying out

[@GovernmentFails]

Both shell and microsoft made synthetic carbon neutral gas and it was $6/gallon and even that I think was an estimate based on biogas capture as they used natural gas

[@wesleybrown4170]

playing minecraft while watching this thank you for the great vid as always