The audacity anyone has to try to sell to people we can stop climate from changing with carbon credits, is criminal.
Carbon credits may or may not be a good solution. Im not prepared to argue that and I have not stake in it.
Let's take a step back and look at your misguided assumption of what it is the concerned steward of planet earth wants.
"We can stop climate from changing."
Is this what you actually think? What or who is telling you this?
Here's the more accurate take. We understand that the climate changes on its own and it can do so in multiple combined and complex ways. Changing salination of the ocean, changing populations of plants and animals, changing surface composition like reflective vs. Absorbative substances, deforestation, change in atmospheric composition, and probably more things that we don't know about yet, are all playing into it to different degrees. The earth itself is the biggest complex system we know. If these things changed climate enough to jeopardize our survival wouldn't we be compelled to do something about it? We require some ideal sweet spot conditions to thrive. While we have quickly improving technology, it would probably be wiser to maintain rather than neglectfully change it And adapt to the result. And if optional or preventable human activity played a big role in accelerating this change, wouldn't we be compelled to do something about it? Like, if methane from grass fed livestock farms was found to be impactful in the change of atmospheric composition, should we take that into consideration separately from whatever the fk the business wants? We should give a rip what They want. Their duty is not to our society, it's to their sustained profit only and rightfully so. We would be INCREDIBLY STUPID in relinquishing our advantages to simply say "whoops the businesses want to do this so I guess we are hands off and have to live with it because socialism is bad." How fkin stupid would that be?
It's more complicated than your everyday right wing oversimplified slogan.
And here's the bottom line. Business will find a way to thrive in whatever reasonable legal framework we give it. Just make sure the delta isn't too high. We as a society through our governments pick the laws based on what we know now, not what they knew 300 years ago.