As of today, Google has eliminated its entire “carbon legacy.” By that, the company means it has purchased high-quality carbon offsets to match all of the emissions ever produced by its data centers and campuses. That includes the emissions generated before Google became carbon neutral in 2007. The company says it’s the first in the world to eliminate its carbon legacy.

Carbon offsets are credits for renewable energy that are meant to compensate for emissions made elsewhere.

Actually it has clear parallels in history with Popes selling forgiveness of all sins to local governors who usually had been murderers, rapists and did much much worse things.

Google is very similar in their doings and behavior.