Purchasing carbon credits is like paying for trash pickup. Someone figured out a way to dispose of it properly.
As for carbon, someone will figure out a way to sequester it and make tons of money and benefit the environment. FutureSDguy, using your figure of $414 per home at 200 million homes in USA, that’s a market of $82.8 billion, not counting businesses and industries. That’s the size of a Fortune 100 company wouldn’t you say?