Wealthy individuals and corporations purchase carbon offsets to neutralize guilt about excessive consumption while continuing pollution-generating lifestyles. Offsets function as environmental indulgences, allowing purchasers to maintain wasteful habits while claiming climate responsibility. This system enables wealthy people to appear environmentally conscious while actually increasing total global emissions. Carbon offset markets lack verification mechanisms ensuring promised […]

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