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I've never heard of this in Portugal but I guess we are way behind in terms of ecology.
I wouldn't pay for carbon offsets just to feel better. It wouldn't make me feel better anyway. How do you know where the money is really going? It's like charities, I am always suspicious. How do I know my money is really going toward that one specific purpose? Usually I'd rather do something locally that actually helps situations directly.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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