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How can alleviating your guilt from your emissions possibly be correlated to reducing deforestation? "Ah, good, they are cutting FEWER trees, I can blow off another tonne of emissions!" Am I making any sense here? No, of course not - it is all nonsense. Even Etsy is in on this nonsense: "Etsy offsets carbon emissions from delivery and packaging on this purchase." Note that warm feeling of doing (imaginary) good? The global North should be financing rain forest protection, with FUNDS and with abstinence from extracting from the natural wealth of those forests. All that is an ENTIRELY separate issue from winding down emissions, and should be done as a moral obligation WITHOUT the stupid little certificate that makes the rich "feel good."

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