[myroon5]

> you are paying someone not to emit carbon that they otherwise would have emitted. You're not getting rid of any actual emissions

That link recommends charities that include think tanks and lobbyists influencing policies well beyond paying individuals, and preventing future emissions is obviously currently more effective lower hanging fruit than removing past emissions

> if we all paid each other not to emit any carbon, what would the cars run on?

less gasoline :)

Chinese car sales went from 6% EVs to 38% EVs in 3 years: https://iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/electric-car-regi...

Most Americans driving their own large inefficient gas vehicles is a solvable policy failure

> you couldn't pay a person $50/year to stop using any transportation or power

luckily for the ~700M people without power, everyone could sustainably use transportation and power; power is obviously dictated even more by institutional decision-making than individual choices