[s9e21]: Carbon Offsets

The story concludes that while offsets could theoretically help, they are currently used as a tool for . They allow companies to avoid the more difficult task of actually cutting their own emissions at the source by simply throwing money at questionable projects.

: Credits are often sold for protecting forests that weren't actually in danger of being cut down. Oliver mocks this as "paying someone not to do something they weren't going to do anyway." [S9E21] Carbon Offsets

Oliver centers the story on the concept of —the requirement that an offset project must only happen because of the carbon credit funding. The story concludes that while offsets could theoretically