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It is the ultimate capitalist industry, billions of dollars predicated on the promise of not doing a thing you swear you totally would've done. It's like extortion but worse.
There's a program in germany where drivers of electric cars can sell their carbon offset, no such option however exists for not using a car and I think that's pretty much the whole thing in a nutshell
Wow. This comment just makes me realise that 'carbon offsets' are the modern equivalent of buying indulgences 500 years ago.
Probably rather tax you for not having a car
I mean, yeah, pretty much. The Federal Enviromental Agency cites that every car is subsidized by about 5000€ a year on average via costs that drivers don't have to pay. Basically if you don't have a car a good chunk of your taxes go to somebody else for having one