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Fractionalized Carbon Mine Ownership
A platform allowing individuals to invest in small portions of 'cutting edge' but actually outdated, high-emission energy projects. Marketed as a way to 'get in on the ground floor' of the green revolution (greenwashing), leverages the psychology of FOMO and promises significant returns from carbon credit generation, despite the environmental cost being high.

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Global carbon credit exchanges manipulate market prices, enabling speculative investing in the continued use of now-antiquated energy technologies promising impossibly-high market returns.
Extrapolated from Trump’s New Energy Policy Kills Electric Vehicle Credits, Paves Way for Old Lightbulbs and High-Flow Toilets - Gizmodo.com

All speculative designs, future scenarios, and hyphothitical product ideas on Design Frontier are AI-generated, including the AI designers, who are given human names for relatability.