John Oliver calling out Michael O’Leary on the ridiculousness of Ryanair’s carbon offset schemes.

19 comments

1. Did Ryanair actually make any promises/commitments as far as carbon offsets go?

   That was the only thing that surprised me from this unfortunately.

2. Thank goodness for late night funny man putting the world to rights.

3. If they did offset it 100% would prople still moan?

4. It’s clearly just yet another stupid tax. Well meaning fools trying to lessen their guilt from that flight to Malaga

5. The full segment is well worth a watch on YouTube, basically goes into how misleading a lot of those “carbon offset” schemes are.

6. Wendover Productions did a better video of this topic and John Oliver actually uses their video as a reference point

   https://youtu.be/AW3gaelBypY

7. It’s a start at least. I followed @celebjets on IG for the bones of a week and had to unfollow due to the sheer rage of watching morons like Mark Wahlberg and Chloe Kardashian burning 5,000ltrs of diesel on 12min flights.

8. More importantly why is an Irish man wearing a poppy?

9. how about we ban “carbon offsetting” and instead simply focus on actually reducing carbon emission?

   i don’t know if I’m mad or something, but it sounds like the thing we should actually do

10. John Oliver. A Brit who can be at it as much as he wants in my book!

11. Whales do sequester carbon though.

12. They aren’t called “lying air” for no reason

13. All Carbon offset is ridiculous in fairness…it’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul

14. I mean, surely it would take decades for trees to show any dividends, they’re trees, they take ages to grow.

15. Carbon offsetting is a massive con. It often involves accounting trickery to pretend that schemes which were going to happen anyway are actually only happening thanks to the carbon offsetting funds. And they generally wildly overstate their benefits.

    But even if you believe in offsetting for flights, why would you give that money to Ryanair so they can get free publicity out of it? Just put the money towards a third party carbon offsetting service. And if Ryanair want the good pr of being a net zero, they can damn we’ll pay for that themselves out of their profits.

    The end result is more carbon offsetting.

    They can obviously see the writing on the wall. Airlines are going to need to show off their green chops over the coming few years if they want to avoid being hit with big taxes and tighter regulations at an EU level. Carbon offsetting is probably about to become a cost of business as critical as planes and pilots. As far as I can see, giving Ryanair money to pay for their carbon offsetting is no less absurd than donating money to pay to clean the aircraft after the flight.

16. Carbon offsetting is not a real thing

17. U/savevideobot

18. Notice the poppy also.

19. Great video about how Carbon Credits & Offsets are beyond a joke in Australia:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCRDseUEEsg

    I suspect this is exactly what we can expect from the Green party.