@hobbitsubculture It’s worth noting that the sorts of people who make a big show of planting trees (or more often, who pay to have trees planted) do not plant – cannot plant – enough to offset their actual emissions. I read an article once about various plane-owning celebrities, for instance, who would pledge X amount of money to a piddly handful of trees.
There’s also room on this boat for hypocrisy, in the cons. Take Al Gore, for instance, whose house grinds through two or three times the power of your typical suburban dwelling, whose plane trips emit oodles of carbon, and whose books account for quite a few trees. He, as the High Priest to Gaia, is permitted these excesses.