This makes carbon offsets into a kind of modern #PapalIndulgence, which let you continue to sin, for a price. As the outstanding short video #MurderOffsets so ably demonstrates, this is an inadequate, unserious and immoral response to the urgency of the issue:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/14/for-sale-green-indulgences/#killer-analogy

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They taught a generation that resistance is futile, that anything you do to make a better future is a scam, and you're a sucker for falling for it. They planted nihilism with every tree.

That scam never ended. Today, we're sold #CarbonOffsets, a modern #PapalIndulgence. We are told that if we pay the finance sector, they can absolve us for our climate sins. Carbon offsets are a scam, a #MarketForLemons.

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