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Clearing the Air: Transforming Aviation

The Big Switch

CHAPTER

Carbon Offsets

The most sure far way to reduce carbon omissions is to omit less in the first place. The money goes towards projects that avoid theoretical carbon omissions, like preventing deforestation. It's really hard to prove a counterfactual by paying this person and saying, hey, we prevented theoretical omissions. And part of what i think about is, are these offsets going like the ones to fund other projects like wind power? How do you verify that that wasn't something that was already going to happen?"

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