Don’t buy carbon offsets; focus on cutting emissions instead. If you must use offsets, create your own. If you can’t create your own, scrutinize the options in the marketplace very carefully and commit to only buy trustworthy ones.

No shit. Paying someone else to give a shit so that you don't have to is what got us into this mess in the first place.

[–] oktherebuddy@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

One fun example of this is going vegan as a personal carbon offset. If you do this for around two years (exact estimates vary) it avoids enough carbon emissions to offset a single round-trip cross-country flight: https://flightfree.org/flight-emissions-calculator

Alternatively, Delta lets you conveniently add $5 to your ticket to buy carbon credits and totally offset all these emissions! Wow, a miracle!

[–] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But the point is to reduce emissions, not to just shuffle them around... yea

[–] oktherebuddy@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah. It's hard to think about this problem within the US, where viable inter-city rail only exists between a few cities on the east coast. If you want to go long distances flying is the only way. Driving a personal car for that distance is even worse in terms of carbon emissions. This country is set up like a machine to drain life from the world.