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If you don’t cause the carbon to be captured, it’s not a credit. If you protect existing trees, no new carbon gets captured that wouldn’t otherwise. Plant the trees on land that you cannot lease/sell for logging. THAT’S a credit.
I don’t earn $500 by not buying the LEGO THE LORD OF THE RINGS: RIVENDELL™, I simply didn’t spend it. See how a credit is different from stopping a loss?
If your feelings weren’t mixed you either don’t value human life or you don’t value democracy.
Edit: a bystander was killed and so was the 20 year old gunman. This is the human life I’m referring to.