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I don't know what the problem is; you pay someone else to go out of their way to do something good for the environment, not necessarily because you don't want to do so on your own, but because it isn't really feasible for you to do so at the moment. It sucks that some folks use them as an excuse to be less environmentally friendly, but that doesn't mean that, as a whole, they aren't a good idea.
As far as big business goes, carbon offsets are a means of incentivising reductions in carbon production, which, unless you're still in denial about global warming, is a good thing.
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