Carbon offsets seem like a great comparison to the way recycling ended up working out for us. Instead of actually doing anything helpful, companies began trying

Carbon offsets seem like a great comparison to the way recycling ended up working out for us. Instead of actually doing anything helpful, companies began trying to make money doing everything but actually recycling the stuff. The recyclable plastic became a product to buy and sell until it got far enough removed from the people initially tasked with recycling it that it was cheaper to dump it in the Ganges River or some other place companies don't care about. Good on them for following up to try to do something that actually works or at least attempts to solve the issue rather than "We bought carbon tax credits and now it's someone else's problem to figure out how to offset that much carbon."