In some ways that’s the opposite of how I think about it. If you’re considering spending money to make the world better, my view is you should spend that money on whatever most improves the world. If you think that is AMF donations, you should just do that. If you think that is carbon offers, or carbon tax advocacy organizations, you should do that instead.
The main model I can think of where you should both give to AMF and also buy offsets for it is one where you’re trying to promote a norm that everyone should offset the emissions that come from their decisions. I don’t think this norm is likely to catch on, and I think a tax is a much better way to implement something similar.
In some ways that’s the opposite of how I think about it. If you’re considering spending money to make the world better, my view is you should spend that money on whatever most improves the world. If you think that is AMF donations, you should just do that. If you think that is carbon offers, or carbon tax advocacy organizations, you should do that instead.
The main model I can think of where you should both give to AMF and also buy offsets for it is one where you’re trying to promote a norm that everyone should offset the emissions that come from their decisions. I don’t think this norm is likely to catch on, and I think a tax is a much better way to implement something similar.
Expanded this into a full post: https://www.jefftk.com/p/offset-norms
Thanks for the helpful reply!