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The most interesting part of this article to me is that carbon offsets to cover 12T of CO2 emissions comes out to only $10/month. I've never looked into person
by notatoad 7y ago
The most interesting part of this article to me is that carbon offsets to cover 12T of CO2 emissions comes out to only $10/month. I've never looked into personal carbon offsets before, but that seems really cheap.
- NickM 7y agoThat's not even the most efficient $/ton offsets that are available. There are non-profits like Cool Earth that are using cleverer approaches to get things down into the vicinity of $1/ton.
- staticcaucasian 7y agoFor less than you might pay for a car, or a year of college, or heck, what you might put into your 401k for the year, you can offset effectively your entire life at $16,000. (80y lifespan * 20T/year typical American emissions * $10/ton current price). I am expecting my first child and I've thought about registering for carbon offsets in his name instead of a typical baby registry. Unfortunately of course, that will only do so much, because the growing global demand for things like air travel, personal car ownership, meat in diets, or air-conditioning mean the numbers on this chart will start to get uglier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions_per_capita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...