I tried to sort carbon credits into boxes and failed

If we created an objectively correct and exhaustive categorization of carbon credits, would it solve everything? Would it solve anything?

Listen in as I read an essay I recently wrote about the endless quest to perfectly categorize the world, and while that may be a useful project for some purposes, it isn't anywhere close to the main reasons the world looks the way that it does.

Listen in and you'll get surrealist sculpture, Michael Polanyi, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Plato. Who can truly say no to an offer like that?

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