People will do literally anything other than plant trees.

Or here’s an option, price in the externalities! Beef is now $300/lb, and everyone goes vegan. Global warming averted.

Stolen from Bsky but I couldn't have put it better -

'Treating oil companies as di-ingenuous entities should become the default action for all governments.

To them carbon off setting is just another way to make money. They should be penalised heavily if still producing oil & gas.'

Capitalism is not a serious ideology for serious people, and anyone who's shackled to it will find themselves utterly incapable of fixing problems that are in any if w dozen ways like climate change.