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For 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 lif
by staticcaucasian 7y ago
For 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...