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I hate buzzwords! It's not "carbon," it's "carbon dioxide" And what about these stupid yellow ribbons everywhere? I hate that too!
  • It's not sloppy

    Carbon neutrality is about offsetting atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane with equal masses of sequestered carbon compounds.

    Since carbon dioxide and methane are such a large part of the global warming problem, the processing of carbon compounds into carbon dioxide (and vice versa) is what "carbon neutrality" is about.

    So, "carbon" here refers to carbon as an atomic element of each of these different compounds, not to molecular carbon.

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