No, if one cared one could spend the couple dollars to buy carbon credits to offset your flight. That would do a lot more than a shaving a fraction of a percent

No, if one cared one could spend the couple dollars to buy carbon credits to offset your flight. That would do a lot more than a shaving a fraction of a percent of fuel. I notice some airlines have a checkbox for this at checkout, it makes it quite easy to do. I wonder if it really offsets the carbon from the flight though, it seems so cheap. Like any one of the dozen taxes you pay for the flight is more than that. If it's the case one could mandate a tax to cover it and all flights in the country could be carbon neutral instantly and nobody would notice the difference.