The looming shortage of carbon credits threatens the supply of imaginary virtue, as 900 companies that exhale 9 billion tons of carbon annually compete to pretend they're healing the planet by giving money to those that don't pump carbon into the atmosphere. What will we do when the price of imaginary virtue shoots up to unaffordable levels?

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