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Originally Posted by kutulu
Offsets are great but if you are doing it to make your lifestyle of excess guilt-free you are missing the point. Drive a more efficient car, live in a smaller home, make smarter purchases.
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What if you are just doing it because you want to, and it doesn't seem to do any harm? I don't feel particularly guilty about my lifestyle, mostly because it's pretty damn low-energy already. I don't see offsets as being a "license" to buy a Hummer and gas it up every day and never recycle and dump shit all over the country. Quite the contrary... it goes along with my existing values regarding the environment.
I purchased my first carbon offset over the weekend when I was buying tickets for us to fly within Europe (via EasyJet)... it was the first time I'd ever been given the option, and I'm aware that jet fuel consumption on its own is very problematic to the environment. So it seemed like a good idea, and was quite inexpensive. What's the harm in contributing a bit?