CO2 offsetting is an ex ante pareto improvement, whereas killing one person then paying someone else not to kill more than 1 person isn’t. I was trying to say the meat offsetting example could be seen as more like the second. You could think both are problematic though.
CO2 offsetting is an ex ante pareto improvement, whereas killing one person then paying someone else not to kill more than 1 person isn’t. I was trying to say the meat offsetting example could be seen as more like the second. You could think both are problematic though.