Honda's commercials saying they are going to be carbon neutral by 2050. What? - eviltoast

What does this mean, if anything? How would it be possible for a car company to be carbon neutral? Is this just nonsense/posturing since it’s so long from now?

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    11 months ago

    Delta airlines is running similar ads. It all sounds like they are kicking the can down the road. “Oh in thirty years everything will magically be better!”

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      11 months ago

      It’s not like these pledges are legally binding. You just say you’re working on it and that means governments can point at that and say they don’t need to implement any regulation as ‘the industry is self regulating’. Then 30 years later nobody will think to check, or the corporation will be acquired by someone else, or, best case scenario we have magical technology that makes it actually possible.