{"id":293994,"date":"2024-01-06T14:39:34","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T13:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=293994"},"modified":"2024-01-06T14:39:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T13:39:37","slug":"history-narrative-and-carbon-credits-a-conversation-with-mordecai-ogada-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=293994","title":{"rendered":"History, Narrative and Carbon Credits &#8211; A conversation with Mordecai Ogada (part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"378\" data-attachment-id=\"293995\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=293995\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/00Screenshot-2024-01-06-143447.png?fit=1276%2C667&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1276,667\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"00Screenshot-2024-01-06-143447\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/00Screenshot-2024-01-06-143447.png?fit=723%2C378&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/00Screenshot-2024-01-06-143447.png?resize=723%2C378&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-293995\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/00Screenshot-2024-01-06-143447.png?resize=1024%2C535&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/00Screenshot-2024-01-06-143447.png?resize=300%2C157&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/00Screenshot-2024-01-06-143447.png?resize=768%2C401&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/00Screenshot-2024-01-06-143447.png?resize=1200%2C627&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/00Screenshot-2024-01-06-143447.png?w=1276&amp;ssl=1 1276w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@MaishaKazini\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"40\" src=\"https:\/\/yt3.ggpht.com\/ytc\/AIf8zZSY3vn6UTObMjfSPen3AQeVxLxexoIqJYdtpkFc=s48-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj\" alt=\"\">Maisha Kazini<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although carbon offsets have been exposed as an environmental pyramid scheme, the Kenyan government and Kenyan communities have signed off land to foreign interests under the scheme. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How do such scams appear logical to Kenyan officials and, most of all, to the communities who are the victims? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Ogada explains the certain underlying racist narratives and institutional corruption which make these scams look perfectly logical to vulnerable Kenyans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"723\" height=\"407\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VESzBn-R5zg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Ogada explains the certain underlying racist narratives and institutional corruption which make these scams look perfectly logical to vulnerable Kenyans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":293995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Dr. Ogada explains the certain underlying racist narratives and institutional corruption which make these scams look perfectly logical to vulnerable Kenyans.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691820081,691818076,691826015,691826016,691818154,691826014],"class_list":["post-293994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-carbon-credit","tag-co2","tag-institutional-corruption","tag-kenyan-government","tag-net-zero","tag-underlying-racist-narratives","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1etQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":287721,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=287721","url_meta":{"origin":293994,"position":0},"title":"BBC: Kenya\u2019s Ogiek People are Being Evicted for Carbon Credits","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"11\/12\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"From Watts Up With That? 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