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(lemmy.world)
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For those unaware
From 2022:
https://www.transportenvironment.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/2021_05_private_jets_FINAL.pdf
Edit: A lot of people seem to have no idea what carbon offsets are. Here's a reasonably quick rundown:
https://climate.mit.edu/explainers/carbon-offsets#:~:text=Carbon%20offsets%20fund%20specific%20projects,and%20waste%20and%20landfill%20management.
Basically though, they are tge best market solution we have thus far yo the climate crisis. We need government to do better but in that absence, this is the closest we hve to a free market solution. While appealing, solutions like "bitching online that people should just go back to pre industrial era lives" or "hoping everyone will just vote correctly next time" are definitely fun solutions, carbon offsets have the effect of actually doing stuff in the meantime.
If we're crucifying people for things they are expected to have, are you pure evil because the phone youbhad undoubtedly used cobalt mined by children who occasionally lose their arns mining it?
A cursory google search showed that she paid double her carbon offsets for the current tour. While imperfect, carbon offsets, and people voluntarily paying into them is how we move through and past our current carbon intensive lifestyle.
Well if you really start looking into it, carbon offsets are mostly a scam.
For instance just declaring: "I will cut down this forest" without ever having the intention to do so, and then not doing it counts as a carbon offset. This is what abgreat part of companies are doing. Just saving forests that nobody wanted to cut down in the first place from being cut down. This they then sell to the consumer as a carbon offset.
John Oliver had a great segment on this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p8zAbFKpW0