Лични въглеродни отпечатъци, с показаните грешки

Повечето съвети за въглеродни емисии на потребителите класират действията по това колко добродетелни изглеждат. Оценката на жизнения цикъл ги класира по размер, а двете подредби едва се припокриват.

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The ordering problem

Recycling, turning off lights and avoiding plastic bags dominate the public conversation and are among the smallest levers available. Heating, flying, driving and diet dominate an actual household footprint. The gap between what people do and what matters is the single most useful thing this site can point at.

Food

The food footprint

Dietary shift has real, measurable effects — and the variation within a food category can exceed the variation between categories.

Aviation

Flying and non-CO₂ effects

Contrails and other non-CO₂ effects roughly double aviation's warming impact, and most calculators ignore them.

Tools

Do carbon calculators work?

They have been evaluated. Their value is educational rather than accounting — the uncertainty is very large.

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