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Carbon footprint

Depending on where you live and how you live you may have a massive carbon footprint – if you live in a developed western nation then your carbon footprint has Sasqwatch written all over it.  Europeans’ footprints perambulate at about 10t p.a which is about half the per capita emissions from the US.

Now if you have ever wondered what your carbon footprint looks like – large chunks of “dry-ice” is really the only way to visualise it – truckloads of dry ice per year being produced by the average “individual transport unit”.  Thats right, truckloads – 250g/km x 20,000km – is 5 ton of the stuff – that is a lot of CO2.  Feel bad?  - you should.

Now your house – that old boiler, 100mm of fibreglass in the attic, single glazed windows, an open fire, thermostat set to 20℃, big flat-screen tuned to sky 24/7 – are you sure you want to know? – probably another 3-4 ton.  It really depends on how fond you are of steak (food probably brings you up to your average of 10t).  Check out change.ie if you want an accurate calculation.