<p>Is the voluntary carbon market a club for saints? Or is it a hospital for sinners? Are we meant to understand all and then to forgive all? How much time are we meant to devote to idealistic abstinence-esque policies for change, and how much of our professional lives should go to harm reduction?</p><p>Today&#39;s show deals with some of the biggest questions in carbon removal and carbon markets, and does it in just the kind of literary-philosophical ways that make this shows its own... whatever it is that it is.</p><p>Trust me and I&#39;ll guide you through the history of the Soviet Union and at least one Warsaw Pact country, David Simon, critical theory, German nuclear policy, the Bill Gates piece that ruffled all feathers one way or another, the Enabled Emissions Campaign, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Vasily Grossman,<strong> </strong><em>I Heart Huckabees</em>, and <em>Bicycle Thieves</em>.</p><p>Some days you hit record and you never quite know what you&#39;re going to discover...</p><p><br></p><p>N.B. The image today is Vaclav Havel&#39;s greengrocer from &quot;The Power of the Powerless&quot; as illustrated by his Czech compatriot, Josef Lada, who did the original illustrations for Jaroslav Hašek&#39;s incredibly funny,<em>The Good Soldier Švejk</em>, who is a sort of antiwar/pacifistic Amelia Bedelia who messes things up in the Army by being a bit too literal and a bit too eager to follow orders.</p><p><strong>This Episode&#39;s Sponsors</strong></p><p><strong></strong><a href="https://www.absoluteclimate.com" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠<strong>Absolute Climate:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ the only standard that’s developed independent of registries</strong>⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a><strong></strong></p><p><a href="https://www.philiplee.ie" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠<strong>Philip Lee LLP: legal resources for carbon removal buyers and suppliers⁠⁠</strong>⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a></p><p><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reversing-climate-change/id1321759767?i=1000715564727" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Listen to the <em>RCC </em>episode with Peter Minor from Absolute Climate⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a></p><p><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reversing-climate-change/id1321759767?i=1000728006363" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Listen to the <em>RCC </em>episode with Ryan Covington from Philip Lee LLP⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a></p><p><strong>Resources</strong></p><p><strong></strong><a href="https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/reversingclimatechange/subscribe" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠<strong>⁠Become a paid subscriber of </strong><em><strong>Reversing Climate Change</strong></em>⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a></p><p><a href="https://www.rosskenyon.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Subscribe to the <em>Reversing Climate Change </em>Substack</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Soldier_Švejk" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><em>The Good Soldier Švejk </em>by Jaroslav Hašek</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khrushchev_thaw" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Khrushchev Thaw</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Stalin" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><em>The Death of Stalin</em></a> film</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Václav_Havel" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Vaclav Havel</a></p><p><a href="https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/the-power-of-the-powerless-vaclav-havel-2011-12-23" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">&quot;The Power of the Powerless&quot; by Vaclav Havel</a>; it&#39;s abridged here but you can click through to the full thing if you&#39;d like</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deirdre_McCloskey" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Deirdre McCloskey</a></p><p><a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2450668" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">&quot;The Clash of Aristocratic and Bourgeois Virtues in &#39;The Wire&#39;&quot; by Dr. Bart Wilson</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wire" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><em>The Wire</em></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Great Purge</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Holodomor (the Ukrainian Famine)</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Katyn Massacre (NSFW: death pit image is first thing on Wikipedia)</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">&quot;The Society of the Spectacle&quot; by Guy Debord</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baudrillard" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Jean Baudrillard</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gatesnotes.com/work/accelerate-energy-innovation/reader/three-tough-truths-about-climate" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">&quot;Three tough truths about climate&quot; by Bill Gates</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Germany" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Germany closing nuclear power plants</a></p><p><a href="https://www.enabledemissions.com" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Enabled Emissions Campaign</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Alexander Solzhinitsyn</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Grossman" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Vasily Grossman</a></p><p><a href="https://www.nyrb.com/products/everything-flows" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><em>Everything Flows</em> by Vasily Grossman</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Heart_Huckabees" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><em>I Heart Huckabees</em></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_Thieves" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><em>Bicycle Thieves</em></a></p>