Video from 11 years ago:

Scenario 1: I take the flight

Scenario 2: I take the flight, I pay some offset

From the planetary perspective, both scenarios are the same:

The only difference is that I paid more and that money went somewhere.

More demand for offsets, which means more supply should be created, which should be good?

BUT BUT BUT

It should not be the end-user sending market signals for new offsets capacity to be created.