Featured image: Destroyed Forest with Standing Trees - Photo by Matt Palmer on Unsplash Overview It’s become obvious that to address climate change and our world’s spiralling economic disconnects, a lot of us are going to have to have less, build less, and want less. The key phrase here is “want less” – if we don’t want less, then we will never achieve systemic “sticky” changes. Safe to say that we need to make “less” a virtue.

The Challenge of Carbon Offsetting As I’ve begun to seriously track my carbon footprint, one of the most contentious questions I’ve encountered is: should I offset my emissions, and if so, how? Carbon offsetting sounds simple in principle – if you emit X tonnes of CO2, you pay for projects that remove or prevent X tonnes of CO2 elsewhere. But the reality is considerably more complex. Types of Offsetting Avoidance Projects These prevent emissions that would otherwise occur: