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Want to offset your carbon footprint? Here’s what you need to know – Ars Technica
Don’t just count on planted trees to offset your next flight.
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In the Middle Ages, the Catholic Church offered indulgences, letting people exchange donations for slips of paper that promised reduced time in purgatory after their death. Less controversially, today someone who over-indulges in the office tea supply might feel obliged to pay for a replacement box. Do carbon offsets more closely resemble the former or the latter?
There are many reasons why you might seek to offset part of your carbon footprint, whether its to assuage…
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