Peasants that survived the black death didn’t have wealth. Still resulted in a massive increase in their bargaining power.

Of course I’ll resign as dictator after the emergency is over, fellow Romans! This is the way it’s always been done!

What makes the vast majority of carbon offset forests a scam is that they existed beforehand and nobody was planning to cut them down, so no new carbon is being removed.

Eventually it reaches an equilibrium

Yes, it will reach an equilibrium if the forest stays the same size, but that equilibrium uses more carbon. If you have a forest where before there was nothing, then you have trees at all different stages of life, all made of carbon.

Every dying tree releasing carbon is replaced by a growing tree absorbing it. The forest is carbon neutral if it’s static, absorbs carbon if it grows and emits carbon if it shrinks.