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by basisword 1515 days ago
>> Carbon offsets are super complicated, potentially shady, and I don’t fully understand them

How can you judge them while openly admitting you don’t understand them?

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There are clear perverse incentives and well-documented abuses.
I think they are purposefully confusing to obfuscate the fact that offsets are primarily a PR mechanism