Offset Companies

If you were previously planning on letting yourself be miserable to save carbon, you should buy carbon offsets instead. Instead of boiling yourself alive all summer, spend between four cents and two dollars 50 an hour to offset your air conditioning use. I use offset here to mean a donation that removes a linear and quantifiable amount of carbon from the atmosphere per dollar. This is probably a less effective use of money than donating the same amount to a generic anti climate changed charity. Depending on your philosophy of what offsetting means and when it's acceptable, you might want to calculate how much it would take to donate your carbon use elsewhere. What are the responsibilities of an ordinary citizen facing the threat of climate change?