Buffer

Wiggle Room. Margin for Error. Buffer.

We humans try to fit everything into boxes: a taxonomy for this, a nomenclature for that. Correlated or Uncorrelated? We don’t know.

There is lots of room for error in Carbon and Natural Capital.

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Worried about additionality? Permanence? A “unit” of biodiversity? Species drift?

If so, build in a buffer. Remove more carbon, plant more trees, restore more land than we think we need to. Kill less animals. Save for Rainy Day.

With a buffer we can do more and argue less.

Excerpted from docs.basin.global

Photo by Halanna Halila on Unsplash