Not the same.
Stealing books from a bookshop - ILLEGAL.
Pumping CO2 into the air and contributing to the global ecosystem's destruction - LEGAL.
Stealing books from a bookshop - ILLEGAL.
Pumping CO2 into the air and contributing to the global ecosystem's destruction - LEGAL.
You mean I can just take a book from a bookstore, depriving others of the chance to read it, and it's somehow "OK" because I paid money to some organization that might eventually use it to print another copy?