“Carbon offsets are basically investments or a voluntary tax for your carbon emissions.”

Good carbon accounting is actually good financial accounting.

Polyester derives from crude oil.

For a polyester jacket, both the brand and the customer are paying extra for the energy used to extract it from the ground and the heat needed to turn that into the constituent materials that we use to make plastic.

That being said, there has not existed a fabric that can assimilate both the wrinkle-free texture of polyester and the breathability of natural cotton or linen (not that coating craft couldn’t trade some effect, but they are toxic too).

But here is a framework from https://youtu.be/HJi-mtXTuCI?si=fRQj-Wq69aKA3xZT that creators can follow to at least pay less and not create more carbon footprint:

Recycling polyester (from water bottles, for example) reduces material consumption by 35 per cent. Going from air shipping to sea shipping save about 75 per cent in the costal loan.

The eight to ten per cent premium for recycled materials actually can get recouped by the fact that you don’t have to pay for carbon offsets.

In 2012, Nike launched Flyknit, which was a technology that combined computerised knitting, recycled materials and sea shipping.

For creatos in a different industry, this may still apply.