Doconomy and Mastercard announce their joint effort to combat climate change by enabling DO – a free and easy-to-use mobile banking service that lets users track, understand and reduce their CO2 footprints through carbon offsetting. The launch of DO sets a new standard for purpose-driven payment services and is a major step in Mastercard’s commitment to drive innovation for a sustainable future.
The purpose of payment processors is to process payments. That’s it. Nothing more. Yet now they are jumping onto the bandwagon being pulled by the eco cult.
By implementing DO Mastercard and Doconomy lets users’ values guide their everyday consumption towards more sustainable choices. DO also enables carbon offsetting via UN certified projects. As part of the service DO offers a possibility to invest in funds with a positive impact on people and the planet. This way the solution gives the consumer insights into the environmental effects of their consumptions, paired with tools for creating change by making sustainable choices.
Tedious virtue-signalling eco-wankery that is nothing to do with them. Their job is to process payments. Nothing else.
In addition to offering users to make their consumption more sustainable, customers can also apply for the physical, climate-friendly and biodegradable DO Mastercard payment card.
Facepalm.
Let’s be clear here. There is no climate emergency. Every single prediction put out by the climate cultists has failed to materialise. The climate changes and the biggest driver of that change is the sun. If another maunder minimum hits, you can forget about global warming, we will be ice skating on the Thames again. That climate changes is a fact. The idea that we should stop it changing is hubris.
That said, yes we should do something about habitat loss and pollution and a first step would be to stop this electric vehicle insanity…
No, I do not want a credit card that maps my carbon footprint because the whole concept is abject virtue-signalling fuckwittery with diamond encrusted knobs. If my current card goes along this route, I’ll close the account.
Apparently there is to be a premium(?) version called the DO Black that stops working when you hit your carbon allowance.
Do Black also invites the user to offset their carbon footprint through projects meeting the criteria of United Nations certified green projects. Put, the first card ever to prevent consumers from exceeding their limit, not based on credit, but on levels of CO2 emissions caused by their consumption.
No. Just…no.
Just Looks like someone is trying to justify a job
It’s a no from me as well. I’ve little against ‘affinity cards’ that donate a tiny bit to a charity of your choice when you spend, but this is horrific and unnecessary virtue signalling. I also can’t help wondering what happens to the ‘carbon footprint’ data that will be gathered by those behind the card?
Yeah, that’s an additional concern. The data mining would have Rio Tinto blanching.
Just goes to prove the breadth of impact of the propaganda, if you’re not part of the programme, you’ll be cancelled.
Just like the Brexit referendum got us out of the corrupt EU club, where only we were daft enough to adopt and gold-plate all the rules, we need another referendum to get us out of the ‘Net Zero’ club. It’s just the same, we’ll do all the stuff, no-one else will, we’ll get stuffed as a result. Why do our governments keep on falling for it every time?
One of the reasons for having a credit card is to pay for those expensive, unexpected emergencies. Having a credit card that stops you using it, possibly when you most need it is just plain stupid.
I suppose you could use the Do Black card to virtue signal and carry a proper card for emergencies. That would work.
But how can a payment processor track the supposed CO2 emissions of what I buy? All they see is the total spend in each transaction, not even the breakdown of what each item costs, let alone what each item is.
The propaganda is in full launch and every corporate will spin its products to fit the narrative. Annoying. But “DO Black” that’s scary in the Chinese social credit system sense and also that they bank on people wanting it.