It is $35. You can spend $35 and offset a year’s worth of carbon emissions. It is not the case that ‘the climate cost per ton is higher currently’.
Because it’s so cheap, you can offset CO2 without caring.
If you want to put a mental block on not emitting, you’re welcome to do so, but it would be incorrect to deliberately pay more than the actual cost of offsetting those emissions. (This is what I personally do; I try to avoid emitting because I think it’s generally morally good to not be excessively wasteful, but I am under no illusions that it wouldn’t be very cheap for me to offset it). Frankly, at the end of the day, the biggest emitters in rich countries are industrial organisations and no amount of personal cutting-back is really going to prevent them from changing their behaviour anyway.
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It is $35. You can spend $35 and offset a year’s worth of carbon emissions. It is not the case that ‘the climate cost per ton is higher currently’.
Because it’s so cheap, you can offset CO2 without caring.
If you want to put a mental block on not emitting, you’re welcome to do so, but it would be incorrect to deliberately pay more than the actual cost of offsetting those emissions. (This is what I personally do; I try to avoid emitting because I think it’s generally morally good to not be excessively wasteful, but I am under no illusions that it wouldn’t be very cheap for me to offset it). Frankly, at the end of the day, the biggest emitters in rich countries are industrial organisations and no amount of personal cutting-back is really going to prevent them from changing their behaviour anyway.