Companies are buying up cheap carbon offsets − data suggest it may be more about greenwashing than helping the climate

Surprised pikachu, companies don’t care about us. We have to build accountability and effectiveness into the system.

The carbon offset market is full of bad actors and most carbon offsets are a scam. Since you don’t receive a tangible product or service when you buy an offset, there’s almost nothing stopping vendors from overstating how much carbon is being removed, selling the same offset multiple times, or a host of other ways to produce carbon offsets from thin air.

If you don’t believe me, I have a bridge some carbon offsets for sale.