After watching the film, I was thinking about the idea of a carbon footprint, and read about it some more, and I found myself wondering how big my cat Chloe's carbon footprint would be. I used a carbon footprint calculator, and answered the questions as though I was her:
-1 person household-1 car, traveling 10 miles/month (about how far I drive for her food & litter)
-$30 electricity/ month (we have electric heat and a/c, so I figured out about how often she is home alone)
-Mostly prepackaged foods
-Rarely buys local
-Generally buys organic
-Eats mostly fish
Sure enough, Chloe, my cat, has a bigger carbon footprint (2.28 metric tons) than the world target for an individual human (2 metric tons). I don't know what this means, but my mind is boggled.
I did a similar test and I produced 29 metric tons of CO2...I was suprised and felt pretty shitty. But what does it all mean? I know I'm not the most wasteful person, and most of the pollution I produce is just driving to and from work/school...
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