The idea is theoretically viable, if you’re actually paying for carbon sequestration. You emit X tons of carbon, you sequester X+Y tons of carbon (where Y > 0), that’s a net win.
The problem is that no-one is doing that because it’s several orders of magnitude cheaper to offer carbon credits to “save” forests that no-one was planning on cutting down. You get a clean conscience at a reasonable cost, some middlemen get richer, the planet gets warmer.
Carbon credits are bullshit, you can’t put fossil fuels back in the ground.
The idea is theoretically viable, if you’re actually paying for carbon sequestration. You emit X tons of carbon, you sequester X+Y tons of carbon (where Y > 0), that’s a net win.
The problem is that no-one is doing that because it’s several orders of magnitude cheaper to offer carbon credits to “save” forests that no-one was planning on cutting down. You get a clean conscience at a reasonable cost, some middlemen get richer, the planet gets warmer.
good point! however no other mega celeb or ceo that flys as much as or more than taylor is buying those offsets. u gotta remember that.