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It resolves your sins and clears your guilt but it’s an illusion! Any fossil fuel driven transport method cannot be offset with tree planting. Trees grow binding carbon dioxide but then also die emitting the same amount. Oil should be left safely in the depths of the earth as it cannot be offset with anything. Don’t throw away your money to organisations that are setting any price they think will attract the market and sending it to any project they fancy. It’s good to be conscious and give money to help a good cause but do it in an informed way and to an organisation that has deep integrity and really deserves it. My recommendation is ‘Trees for Life’ who are replanting the Caledonian forest in Scotland, the founder Alan Featherstone has already declined substantial financial offers from companies wanting to buy all the carbon he has offset in his 16 years of tree planting, so retrospective carbon offsetting – how moral is that? Beware of this corporate green wash and support people who are standing up strong against it. See http://www.treesforlife.org.uk/