Originally Posted by makeinu
I, for one, don't think it's a good idea. There is absolutely no way that I will ever pay someone to reduce their emissions. It's like paying a burglar to leave your home.
Large producers of emissions should be paying us for the damage they create. Not the other way around.
Sure, the ideal is that everyone who's doing something bad would stop doing so and/or fix the bad things they did. But that's very unlikely to happen and in the meantime, you and I are suffering from it too. Think about it this way: the street you live on might have some soda cans and candy wrappers thrown on the ground in front of your home. You didn't put them there but they're making your home and street less beautiful and enjoyable. You have two options:
1. Complain that whoever threw them there should be fined (which won't happen because they'll never be "found") and leave them there
2. Sweep them up yourself and have a cleaner more enjoyable street