I did the math on “carbon footprints” and here’s the truth about this individual responsibility malarky.

every able bodied man and woman on earth could drop what they are doing right this second, take on an ascetic lifestyle, no eating drinking or sleeping, stop our individual “carbon footprint” cold turkey

and spend the next 10 years planting a a tree every waking hour, somehow releasing zero carbon while doing so

and not even get up to 1% of a difference to the amount of atmospheric carbon humanity has so far released