My problem with CO2Stats is that they are sort of slyly dancing around the truth. The truth is that they do not buy/acquire carbon offsets. In fact, they buy mo

My problem with CO2Stats is that they are sort of slyly dancing around the truth. The truth is that they do not buy/acquire carbon offsets. In fact, they buy more energy. They just ensure the additional energy was created cleanly. But what about the devices that that use the clean energy? This is like saying, "I'll offset your polluting car by building another car using clean materials." That doesn't physically offset my car, it builds another whole car (which in itself is wasteful). Now my footprint is increased, not decreased. As I understand it, the general theory in the business of conservatism is that you should literally offset the consumption, not cause more of it. If I use X amount of energy, I expect a company like CO2Stats to do something to physically counter the pollution and other environmental impacts that went into creating X amount of electricity. Like planting trees or buying real carbon credits or funding research of cold fusion or something.