London Marathon will tax foreign runners £26 so the can be carbon neutral by 2030

What kind of grift is this? If the London Marathon wants to sit on a high horse about being "carbon neutral", it should ban anyone that doesn't already live in the London area instead of being hypocritical and flying in.

They already make it hard enough for foreigners- you can't time qualify through their "Good for Age" entry unless you are a British citizen. Just making it harder for Non-Brits to run a WORLD MAJOR.

36 euro for carbon plated shoes

If you pay already thousands of dollars for flight, hotel and overpriced start fee for just a marathon. 26 pounds don't make a difference.

Tokyo basically takes this to the next level.

My favourite is that you can maybe get in with a sub 2:32 regardless of age... cool...except there are 25 spots worldwide.

Too me it sounds more like the racketeering that NYCM was doing with the lottery. They used to charge $10 just to enter. With 100,000 entrants it was an easy mil.

At least London is the cheapest major to enter overall. The others are like 3-5x more.

I wonder what they do with the CO2 once they remove it from the air

"I love CO2", said every plant ever. "Please create more so I can grow big and strong!"

That WMM over-hyped marketing which drives prices out of the charts is so silly. There're so many great marathons in Europe (Amsterdam, Barcelona, Sevilla, Valencia and few others) which cost 60-100 Euro to enter. Why bother with London?

Greenwashing !

Don't worry, in addition to the carbon offset London has its own much more lucrative lottery racket. Your odds of winning the lottery are ridiculously low, about 1 in 30 - so you could be an old man by the time you got in. But if you forfeit your ENTIRE RACE FEE, they'll put your name in the hat twice. Using this method, which I'm sure lots of people do, it would take on average 15 years to get in and you'd end up paying the race fee 15 times over.

Is it April Fool's Day?

This would clearly be a breach of the Equality Act, as it would constitute illegal racial discrimination and discrimination on grounds of nationality.

Great move. Everyone still has the choice to race if they get a place but has to pay for the damage they are doing.

London Marathon are very virtue-signaling.

Where else can you run a world class marathon, starting alongside the elites with your own start area for only £55?

Let’s admit this thread is a cynical piece of click-bait, another empty exercise in monetized LRC noise. We’ve already had major events (the Olympic Trials in Eugene) affected by climate impacts. In 2022, three heat waves hit France during the Summer and resulted in the deaths of an estimated 7,000 people. And where will the Olympics be held next year?...Likewise, during the Pacific NW heatdome event of 2021 (when the Trials were impacted) over 60 people died. It’s only a matter of time before a marquee event like the Olympics is impacted, that’s obvious, and that should be the point if this thread: global warming’s obvious threat to the sport. But if you were raised in the Nation’s petrochemical capitol (Houston) and if probable oil industry money runs in your family and financed your Ivy League days, well then, you may be a little rationally and ethically compromised. And hey—Science Is Now Religion—yes you are right that increased CO2 stimulates the growth of plants. They do grow larger and more robust. Unfortunately, a plant’s ability to uptake more minerals & nutrients through its roots does NOT increase as its growth accelerates under increased CO2. And that results in larger but LESS nutritious crops. When you consider that most of humanity depends upon 4 staple foods: rice, corn, wheat, and potatoes, that is not a promising development.

the-scientist.com

As Carbon Dioxide Goes Up, Plants’ Nutrient Content Declines

Abundant environmental CO2 can increase plant biomass and photosynthesis, but it has downsides for agriculture and ecosystems, a growing body of research finds.

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Securely sequester it in Harambe's cavernous, 100x vaccinated ass.

Carbon Dioxide makes up 0.04% of our current atmosphere and at 0.02%plant life starts to die. This carbon footprint reduction BS is just that, total BS and a scam!