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When carbon offsets become moral indulgences

I started buying carbon offsets for everything I do and now I feel like I'm just paying money to avoid actually changing my lifestyle.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Market-based environmental solutions can become ways of purchasing permission to avoid deeper changes rather than supplements to genuine transformation.

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