I thought carbon offsets were a total scam until my neighbor showed me his 2023 receipts

Uma Martinez · 2026-10-01T16:00:02.811878+00:00

I always rolled my eyes at people paying extra to "offset" a flight, figured it was just guilt money. But my neighbor in Austin pulled up the actual project reports for a cookstove program in Kenya he funded, and the emissions cuts were verified by a third party with real numbers. Has anyone else actually dug into the paperwork on these, or do you just trust the label?

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