Do not deserve better than the carbon scandal of Cleibers

We saw No Bern this year. If you are not from here, you may have seen her revealing in the news like many other hell. Biology in ash. People are shocking.

I was close when this happened in January, and the visit of the house from New York to attend the funeral of a family member. As a climate journalist, I was grateful because I was not covering this catastrophe in the actual time. Instead, I was with my family, trying to track the highways that were closed due to the fire, whether this may prevent any of us from reaching the service, and whether the fire may go on our way.

This has become part of life in southern California. that it It gets worse with climate change With high temperatures and dehydration, the landscape absorbs, creating more fuel for fires. When I returned to California this spring, the editor asked me what I would miss in New York. The water decreased (and public transport). I intended not to have to establish every additional drop that comes out of a faucet when I do not use it.

This is a long -standing way to say that climate change is really absorbed in Los Angeles. Now, moreover, we have to deal with the latest scandal of Cleibers – the owner of the concession and former CEO of Microsoft Steve Palmer, who claims to circumvent the ceiling of the US Professional League salary to secure the star player Kohi Leonard through the carbon credit scheme.

It is the most sport scandal for this year, and if it is true, it is a dangerous blow to the system that is supposed to guarantee a flat stadium regardless of whether your team owner is one of the richest people in the world. It is also part of a larger environmental disaster. Breaking the rules of the game under the guise of interest in the planet only adds an insult to the injury of the Clippers community, which was severely hit due to climate change.

It is recognized that this entire matter was a real struggle to wrap my head, even as a person who writes about it strange Carbon Senigan. So glory to the journalist Pablo Toure Break news on his podcast This month, after researching bankruptcy files and talking to former employees about a self -advertisement.A friend of climateThe bank called the ambition that has close relations with Palmer.

Leonard silently signed a $ 28 million support deal with ambition, which Tori and the former ambition employees claim to be a way to wandering in the maximum salary that the American Professional League has in his place to spread the league talent by restricting the ability of teams to buy all big players. The ambition had support deals with Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert Downey Junior and Drake. Leonard got more money than all of them together, but he never promoted the brand in any type of advertisement, events or social media, and ambition did not provide any kind of public announcement of the support deal. Almost at the same time, Palmer has personally invested a value of $ 50 million in ambition, which Tori’s reports claimed that he could finance the “Leonard” job.

What would you promote Leonard if he did this job? Help the ambition, companies, including Microsoft and DeadBuy carbon credits to try to compensate for climate pollution. Ambition has also become a founding partner for the new Clippers Square, Intuit Dome, through Care of $ 300 million Palmer announced in 2021. “There is a responsibility linked to building the best square in the world.” press release At that time, claiming that the square “will work free of carbon by 100 % of the first day.”

Together, ambition and Clippers will provide the “Planet Protection Fund”, allowing them to pay fees to compensate for some of their carbon emissions. Last week, Tori Podcast It revealed that Clippers also Paid $ 56 million for carbon credit in 2022Outwardly to compensate for Intuit Dome emissions. Distinguished, Cleibers made payments to ambition at the same time as the Environmental Company was paying Leonard. By 2024, the Ministry of Justice was Ambition investigation About if it is misleading people who have poor carbon credits. The company went busty In March, in August this year, ambition Joseph Sanburg, founder Joseph Sanburg, agreed to acknowledge guilt To defraud investors and lenders in a planning plan of $ 248 million.

Cleibers did not respond to freedomRequests to suspend from Palmer, Leonard or concession. They also did not immediately answer questions about whether the Intuit Dome is currently neutral for carbon, and if so, whether this depends on the carbon credits in which ambition was mediated. A statement From Cleibers last week, he says that the team contracted with ambition to buy carbon credits, but Palmer “was deceived for investment and some parts of this agreement, as well as many other investors and employees.” In a statement to Tori, Cleibers denied allegations that he circumvented the salary ceiling – allegations that the American Professional League is now Investigation.

In complete transparency, I write this from a loving family in Lakers, where the gossip around Clepers has become newly at the dinner table for a few weeks now thanks to Tori’s achievement.

But this is far from the first controversy that involves carbon credits, which is in A lot of corporate wash root. All carbon credit is supposed to represent a metric tons of carbon dioxide pollution that calms the planet captured or avoided-usually by planting trees or preventing the removal of forests. Individual companies and consumers may buy these credits to try to cancel their pollution, but the actual benefits of the climate are mostly ExaggeratedIf not unavailable. Tree It does not guarantee that it will remain for a century or moreMinimum standard To have a meaningful effect on the climate. There is a lot of Fears on Double waiver The amount of carbon stored.

Even before the appearance of the ambitious drama, the Palmer jumped on a cart it calls a lot bloomer solution Climate change. In Los Angeles, the consequences of climate change are brutal. Fire season I slept Taller In California as a result of the changing climate caused by a person. It is launched in January Pacific Palisades and Tadina In Los Angeles County, she was killed at least 31 people (And one Ticket I found that excessive deaths could be It is 440) Destroy 16,000 homes and buildings. Global global warming made hot conditions and vaccine Ticket Find.

Huge fire smoke has become more healthy risk It leads to tens of thousands of early deaths in the United States in the coming years. The exacerbation of the smoky fog is other treacherous side effects of climate change. Cars, trucks and power stations that burn fossil fuels emitted from carbon dioxide Controls of smoky fog formation. More hot temperatures occur Accelerate the chemical reaction that creates smoky fog.

This reminds me of everything by checking Air quality While I write this from the backyard, it is currently.Unhealthy“It is” similar to yesterday at this time. “I am not too far from Leonard Moreno Valley Estate; We grew up in the internal empire area, which is often overlooked east of Los Angeles, which has some of the worst smoky fog in the country, According to the American Lung Association.

This is the place where there is some personality of the character in all this, I think – when you want the root of his hometown hero, and let you down.