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What's your carbon footprint?

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I venture to guess mine is lower than the large majority of the climate hysteria hyocirites.



My home is a self built live in partial undergrpund basement. It's just a buried basement with no main floor.

I drive a Toyota yaris. Rarely ever eat out. Have an EPA wood HEATER for heat.

My weekness is the a/c though. Crank it down to 72 at night.
 
Simpletruther said:
I venture to guess mine is lower than the large majority of the climate hysteria hyocirites.
My home is a self built live partial undergrpund basement.
I drive a Toyota yaris. Rarely ever eat out. Have an EPA wood HEATER for heat.
My weknes is the a/c though. Crank it down to 72 at night.
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You kind of have to measure your output if you actually want to know. It's complicated.

(I'm not sure citing a "wood HEATER" is a great argument for a low carbon footprint)
 
I'll have to check my birth certificate - it's the only carbon footprint I'm aware of that I have in my possession. /s
 
Simpletruther said:
I venture to guess mine is lower than the large majority of the climate hysteria hyocirites.



My home is a self built live in partial undergrpund basement. It's just a buried basement with no main floor.

I drive a Toyota yaris. Rarely ever eat out. Have an EPA wood HEATER for heat.

My weekness is the a/c though. Crank it down to 72 at night.
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That's awesome!!
 
Mr Person said:
You kind of have to measure your output if you actually want to know. It's complicated.

(I'm not sure citing a "wood HEATER" is a great argument for a low carbon footprint)
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Well there's that. But, you can get more eco friendly stoves now I believe. That fact that he doesn't go anywhere, and doesn't eat out much is a plus!
 
I try to keep my footprint small for economic reasons and also I'm generally against wasting resources.
 
I'm not too much worse than average. My old truck, built in 1965, has only a PCV valve for emissions control. This doesn't generate any more CO2 than a modern car. CO2 isn't an emissions system regulated gas.
There are some issues with CO and unburned hydrocarbons though. I sometimes think of replacing the muffler with a catalytic converter. I only drive it on the weekends so WTF?
 
Simpletruther said:
I venture to guess mine is lower than the large majority of the climate hysteria hyocirites.



My home is a self built live in partial undergrpund basement. It's just a buried basement with no main floor.

I drive a Toyota yaris. Rarely ever eat out. Have an EPA wood HEATER for heat.

My weekness is the a/c though. Crank it down to 72 at night.
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If you live in a single family home your carbon footprint is miles bigger than an inner city apartment dweller.
I live rural. We heat with wood. My carbon footprint would make a Sasquatch tip his hat.
 
Simpletruther said:
I venture to guess mine is lower than the large majority of the climate hysteria hyocirites.



My home is a self built live in partial undergrpund basement. It's just a buried basement with no main floor.

I drive a Toyota yaris. Rarely ever eat out. Have an EPA wood HEATER for heat.

My weekness is the a/c though. Crank it down to 72 at night.
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I neither know nor care what my so-called carbon footprint may be. It matters not - just like everyone else's.
 
Grand Mal said:
If you live in a single family home your carbon footprint is miles bigger than an inner city apartment dweller.
I live rural. We heat with wood. My carbon footprint would make a Sasquatch tip his hat.
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Is your stove EPA ?
 
Live in Canada, I have a 3000 sq foot house with large windows ( heat loss)

I drive a F150 a version which gets reasonably good fuel economy ( not the hybrid)

My wife drives a Honda Accord with the 2.4 4 cylinder

The house is newer, built in 2017

Commute is approximately 30 miles a day

So vastly higher than international Ave, higher than Canada Ave but not drastically so
 
Simpletruther said:
Glad you like it. But inhale to say, it's because I am an efficiency nut. Not becasue of carbon concern.
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I am the same way. Has to be efficient. The one takes care of the other. If you are not a wasteful person, then your carbon footprint is likely lower than most.
 
Lord Tammerlain said:
Live in Canada, I have a 3000 sq foot house with large windows ( heat loss)

I drive a F150 a version which gets reasonably good fuel economy ( not the hybrid)

My wife drives a Honda Accord with the 2.4 4 cylinder

The house is newer, built in 2017

Commute is approximately 30 miles a day

So vastly higher than international Ave, higher than Canada Ave but not drastically so
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Yea I have you beat badly.
 
i constantly breathe out CO2. I put gas in my car, and I eat cows..
Somebody alert John Kerry - better yet tax the cows
 
There are several calculators available online. For example,

www.footprintcalculator.org

How many planets does it take to sustain your lifestyle?

Calculate your Ecological Footprint. Find out how many planets would be needed if everyone in the world lived like you?
www.footprintcalculator.org www.footprintcalculator.org

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WWF Footprint Calculator

Calculate your environmental footprint and learn how you can reduce your impact with WWF's Footprint Calculator.
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I suppose mine went down when I essentially stopped driving a vehicle because of the medicines I'm required to take, especially the last 12 months of some apparently very dangerous stuff that is super tightly controlled and warnings are all over documents about any equipment usage. I'm surprised I'm allowed to use a flushing toilet. I still have a gold thingy license, though. My wife insisted I get it as an extra piece of identification and emergency driving.

But as of just about three hours ago in this abode my carbon footprint jumped a fair bit as I gave up on an experiment I was conducting. At this location, because my wife and daughter hardly ever visit here I was going to try and go the whole summer without using the dehumidifier in this south room where this work station is located.

Four fans to help and experimenting with how to arrange air circulation and using the outside air temperature in evenings, night, and early morning pulled in to cool off this room. An exhaust fan in the north room.

Funny that the extra heat didn't seem to cause extra trouble with the cancer related troubles and I was thinking it was like a lengthy sauna session. But the sweat trouble was a monster headache. I purchased all sorts of towels and --- well, it was very difficult. I already had a fan arranged for the computer --- all my work stations have fans for the towers or laptops.

But it was seriously impacting my work and I was cheating too often by heading to places I could go that were air conditioned besides the hospital and government locations I have to go to, except I was spending a tad longer hours in some of those locations.

I really thought I could do it --- get through the full summer without using that air unit here. I haven't told anyone in my family I was trying such a stupid experiment; nor the medical folks at the hospital. All would have been glad to have confirmation I'd lost my mind and maybe commit me.

But about three hours ago just as I was going to try for a nap I gave up. In addition, we are having some of those heat alerts in the Kanto area of Japan, and other areas not in trouble due to heavy rain this year. I guess the heat trouble has been mighty bad this summer.

I just gave up. What is worse, I don't feel guilty. It was probably another one of my so stupid experiments in life, so --- well, this one was a secret until this post. I could go to the other houses, so I was lucky that nobody in the family showed up here to see how I was doing and discovering I was into another of my nutcase adventures.

But you can bet your sweet bippy my carbon footprint is a whole bunch lower than when I was still flying. Our choppers and fixed wings are putting some serious bad stuff into the atmosphere. That's one reason I am sort of surprised by all those high profile folks giving all sorts of pleading speeches about us lowering our carbon footprint and then jump into their cool electric car and get to the airfield and climb into that so comfortable fixed wing or chopper and tell the AC to get going. Some choppers may mean they can just take the elevator up to the roof and get into that very comfy chopper. Sort of seems like a kind of cheating in all that. But they have the freedom to say what they want and spend their bucks as they want. Well, in many nations.
 
Related:

en.wikipedia.org

List of countries by ecological footprint - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org

This is a list of countries by ecological footprint. The table is based on data spanning from 1961 to 2013 from the Global Footprint Network's National Footprint Accounts published in 2016. Numbers are given in global hectares per capita. The world-average ecological footprint in 2016 was 2.75 global hectares per person (22.6 billion in total). With a world-average biocapacity of 1.63 global hectares (gha) per person (12.2 billion in total), this leads to a global ecological deficit of 1.1 global hectares per person (10.4 billion in total).[1]
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The target footprint, then, is 1.63 gha. That also goes down as the world population increases and natural resources are degraded.
 
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