"Carbon offsetting is like saying to your husband or spouse: ‘I’m going to cheat, but I’ll buy you a diamond ring.’"

Sometimes, the carbon offsets are from projects that would be built anyway, and there is a lot of sketchiness all around.

It might be better than nothing or it might empower companies to pollute more and then say, "Look, we are offsetting all this!"

I like how your example still involves moving carbon around.