Degrowth & Transport Carbon Offsets may be difficult to balance until there is a huge shift away from consumerism.

It will take a lot of convincing the electorate that they can’t have their latest consumerist bauble unless they make it themselves, or find someone local to make it.

Even if they find someone to make it, decentralised manufacturing is usually more expensive (from an environmental impact view) than mass-produced goods.

A million individual people making a jacket each produces more waste than 10 people working together to build a million jackets.