Carbon offsets would only work if the sequestration strategy is permanent, which implies doing waaaaay more than any of these joke offerings can do. Like… plant entire new forests that will never be developed. Ever.

Like recycling, it’s also mostly a PR thing to take the perceived onus for addressing a problem that’s fundamentally caused by how industry is organized and shift it into individual consumers - who will never succeed at addressing the problem because the interventions are inherently inadequate.