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Nearly 40 percent of all offsets currently on the market are tree-based in some way, says Julian Zelizer .
Zelizer: Most of the system, like a house in The Three Little Pigs , is built out of sticks.
California ’s offset program accounts for wildfire losses using a sort of tree insurance program, Zelizer says.
He says fires have destroyed nearly 11 million offset credits in California 's program.
The Amazon , home to some of the largest offset projects in the world, has been especially hard-hit by drought in recent years .
As dry trees die en masse, they release millions of tons of carbon dioxide as they slowly decay .
Some parts of the Amazon are actually losing more carbon than they can gain in a single year .
Protecting the world’s forests requires that we immediately and permanently stop adding carbon dioxide.
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