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by ryanmercer 2528 days ago
> don't understand your opposition to the idea of individuals contributing to carbon offset projects.

My opposition is that for every 1$ you give Wren, they pocket 20 cents and then hand 80 cents off to another organization (of their choosing) with, as far as I can tell from their site, zero information on how your money is being applied, who exactly they are giving it to, if that organization is for or non-profit and how much they are spending on overhead before actually doing something with the money, etc. Right now there are vague mentions of stopping illegal logging, and that's it. Doesn't say what company, what organizations, what countries, how or who.

What they do document well, is their roadmap... how they want to spend your money internally, not directly to some sort of carbon sequestration efforts.

They want to:

- make it easy to unsubscribe from wren

- increase site performance internationally

- add sharing features

- add how to change your subscription to their FAQ

- handle declined card errors

Great, but what are you doing with the other 80% of the money someone gives you?