The Carbon-Offset Game Is Up

Amajor environmentalist group has found that the carbon offsets beloved by far-left activists are ineffective at best.

Carbon offsetting is the global-warming equivalent of the ancient religious practice of buying indulgences. Carbon offsets offer a financial mechanism to compensate for an entity’s emission of greenhouse gases by paying someone else to reduce or remove their own emissions such as by planting trees, which absorb carbon dioxide. Theoretically, this enables emissions to be canceled out, but in reality carbon offsets are plagued by corruption and ineffectiveness.