Carbon Offsetting

Do carbon-offsetting schemes morally offset emissions? The moral equivalence thesis is the claim that combination of emitting greenhouse gasses and offsetting those emissions equivalent to not at all. This implies in response climate change, we need make any lifestyle changes reduce our as long them. An influential argument favor this premised on two claims, one empirical other normative: (1) When you emit + offset, net result same emitting. (2) With emissions, what matters morally. I argue against both premises. never emitting, even if it were equivalent, only thing My conclusion although should avoiding preferable. supports a stronger claim: carbon offsets cannot relieve us duty significant so thus lesson contribution harms change.