Carbon credits; Indulgences dressed to serve modern sensibilities
Say Carbon-capture were at a point where we could actually say that my paying $100 caused an extra metric ton of CO2 to be extracted from the atmosphere.
Then it actually would work to reduce what I can and offset the rest. Carbon is fungible. If I release 100 tons and capture 120 tons, I've done the world a favor.
The issue is simply that the Carbon Capture schemes seem to be hot air.
If interested, this is how the University of Cambridge named the url of this story: https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/carbon-credits-hot-air
Except what if you only offset 30 tons and you produced an additional 80 tons because you thought you offsetted most of your emissions?