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For less than you might pay for a car, or a year of college, or heck, what you might put into your 401k for the year, you can offset effectively your entire life at $16,000. (80y lifespan * 20T/year typical American emissions * $10/ton current price). I am expecting my first child and I've thought about registering for carbon offsets in his name instead of a typical baby registry.

Unfortunately of course, that will only do so much, because the growing global demand for things like air travel, personal car ownership, meat in diets, or air-conditioning mean the numbers on this chart will start to get uglier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...