The worry is that enough people will defect from the current social norms so that they break down, but not enough people defect to create a new norm of donating to effective charities instead.
Neither an “offset your harm” nor a “donate to effective charities” norm are especially well established in the general population, though. Your argument sounds like it’s based on the former being widespread?
The idea of global warming offsets is pretty widespread, but I don’t think a norm of buying them is. Specifically, I don’t think either that they’re very widely bought or even seen as something you’re supposed to buy.
(My impression is that it’s catching on as a norm among sustainably minded companies, though.)
The worry is that enough people will defect from the current social norms so that they break down, but not enough people defect to create a new norm of donating to effective charities instead.
Neither an “offset your harm” nor a “donate to effective charities” norm are especially well established in the general population, though. Your argument sounds like it’s based on the former being widespread?
Global warming offsets are pretty big.
The idea of global warming offsets is pretty widespread, but I don’t think a norm of buying them is. Specifically, I don’t think either that they’re very widely bought or even seen as something you’re supposed to buy.
(My impression is that it’s catching on as a norm among sustainably minded companies, though.)