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Satirist John Oliver takes aim at carbon offsets

John Oliver

US SATIRIST John Oliver has taken aim at the global carbon industry, highlighting a series of dodgy schemes, starting his own registry called “Oliver’s Offsets” and vowing to make big claims by doing very little.

Mr Oliver’s ‘Last Week Tonight’ program is a popular television show in the United States and has made fun of many topics over the years – including former agriculture minister Barnaby Joyce’s threats to euthanise Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s dogs Pistol and Boo.

This week he took aim at the carbon industry and the dozens of multi-national companies…

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