We should get carbon credits for all the homeless people who don’t have electric or gas service. Or water sewer garbage service. Or cable TV. The more homeless we get, the less carbon we make. Also we should get carbon credits for all the immigrants who live 10 to 20 people in a house that used to have 5 of the people who are now homeless. The higher population density should produce carbon savings based on more people sharing the same amount of energy to keep the house warm or cool. It’s not a 1 to 1 improvement but it drives the average down. And maybe we can get carbon credits for all the recycling that homeless people do. They recycle a lot of idle shopping carts and kids’ bicycles left lying around, as well as a lot of perfectly good stuff that people put in their trash cans. I just think we need some credit for all the sacrifices.
I have already not taken a transatlantic flight per year for all but three of the last 50 years. I have only been in an airplane going anywhere 3 times since 1972. Do we get rollover credit for unused flights?