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If you have a little extra money one super easy thing you can do is buy a carbon offset for the carbon you produce each year. There's plenty of websites that ca
by TimJRobinson 10y ago
If you have a little extra money one super easy thing you can do is buy a carbon offset for the carbon you produce each year. There's plenty of websites that can do this if you google for something like "offset my carbon emissions".
They will then invest this money in companies that will plant trees, build alternate power or something similar to permanently remove the CO2 you produced ensuring you are carbon neutral for the year.
Also my electricity company has a program where you can pay 10% more and all the electricity will be sourced from renewable sources that are carbon neutral. I switched many years ago and barely noticed the increase.
These are all basically enacting a carbon tax on yourself, and if enough people do it it will encourage the polluters to invest in more renewable forms of energy (as their profits will continually drop) and lead to a better world.