What’s YOUR Carbon Footprint?
Hey! You big dumb American, find out how much guilt you should have about how you’re livin’.
Go here and figure out your “carbon footprint”. (For some of us it’s more like a buttprint.)
Here is mine, I’m proud to say!:
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The average persons total carbon footprint in the USA is about 19,000 kg per year.
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The average for all industrial nations is about 11,000 kg per year.
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The world-wide average is 4,000kg per year.
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To stop combat climate change the world-wide average needs to be reduced to about 2,000kg per year.
To do this isn’t easy, but to start with you should:
1. Buy your electricity from a renewable energy supplier
2. Reduce the number of flights you take
3. Car share or use public transport more
4. Use less energy at home and at work.
Actually, I turned out to be better than I suspected since it didn’t measure my obscene habit of car collecting pre-smog muscle cars. So, in celebration I will mow my grass and have the block over for a BBQ this weekend. There still remains one question: When I go to the store - paper or plastic?
Who was it that said “Follow the money”? Well it certainly pertains here. Visit the site acquire the guilt trip and then go to the online store to work off that same guilt trip by purchasing Carbon Offsets such as reforestation in Kenya. Feeling better about your exhorbitant American lifestyle? Good. Now, go cram yourself into a Prius and start savin’ Gaia!
