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Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate impact
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2023
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Even if it's just to increase the population, it doesn't really make sense. Would a similar fertility clinic not exist without this person opening it? Would those babies not have been born otherwise?
A lot of carbon offsets are pretending that a forest was otherwise going to be cut down, when that was never a risk, or it's selling the same trees to multiple people. Or the trees are actually cut down despite the offset.