Those who find carbon offsets somehow repugnant ought to offer a more helpful alternative. It is simply not possible for the developed world to change its energy infrastructure over night or to overhaul individual lifestyles wholesale – and all of us in North America have a carbon footprint that outweighs what the global per capita average ought to be given the scientific community’s consensus of stabilizing global temperature (about 1 ton annual per person versus the approximately 20 ton per person annual average in the US)
