Extra baking, shopping — what works for you in keeping your carbon footprint down to an “acceptable” level?
What’s the point? Point that logic in almost any other direction and you’ll see the problem with it.
As we venture into the holiday season, do you find it harder-than-usual to reduce your carbon footprint?
Posted by Admin on February 3rd, 2010
Posted in Green Energy Source 
Tags: Carbon, Find, Footprint, harderthanusual, holiday, Into, Reduce, season, Venture
What is the point of reducing my tiny carbon footprint while China is pumping millions of tons of pollution into the atmosphere every second?
I have to admit that I have a hard time worrying about my carbon footprint while 80% of the world’s population is exempt from carbon growth controls, and while their black soot pollution, a close second place in influence and the #1 way to reduce global warming in the short term, remains completely left out of discussions on solutions.
The big reductions to factors such as CO2 will come from public policy decisions at the national level on things like coal poer plants and MPG standards (in the U.S., power generation is 40% of CO2 emissions and transporation is 30%).
However, there is no effective solution to global warming even being discussed among nations, so until that day comes it is strategically inadvisable and morally reprehensible to pander to uneducated masses and give people false hope by taking token steps to reduce CO2 emissions on a regional basis only while also ignoring immediate solutions like reducing soot pollution (black carbon).
Well I’m doing my christmas shopping online, which often creates a smaller carbon footprint than buying stuff in stores.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/05/online-carbon-footprint-customer-choice.php
And I’m trying to buy eco friendly presents when possible.
http://greenhome.huddler.com/products/terracycle-drink-pouch-tote-bag
Fortunately my family lives nearby, so I don’t need to do too much excessive traveling to get together with them. But it’s certainly more difficult with get togethers and present buying to keep carbon footprints low.
People shouldn’t worry at all about their so-called ‘carbon footprints’. There’s no evidence that global warming is real, we may as well give up on it after waiting all this time for something to happen. Global cooling might soon be the new fad actually.