Carbon footprint and offsets

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9-30-25, 11:08pm
flowerseverywhere

Carbon footprint and offsets

There were some recent articles about Mark Zuckerberg new 300 million dollar yacht. Plus the 30 million dollar support vessel that travels with it to bring Porsches, wake boats and a submarine. And it’s carbon footprint.

so I started looking into carbon footprints and carbon offsets, which I had no idea you could purchase. I also perused some online carbon emission calculators, but the info did not include much of a picture of what you really used. It did classify us a low users based on the limited info, but we drive little and don’t fly, eat almost no meat, and use heating and cooling sparingly. I feel sometimes like it is a drop in the ocean compared to large industrial and private jet users for instance.
10-1-25, 9:04am
catherine

Have you tried this calculator? I find it to be pretty specific.

https://www.footprintcalculator.org/home/en

Yes, our individual footprints are nothing compared to some footprints. I wonder what the footprint will be of Trump's opening up of 13 million acres of federal lands for the expansion of "clean" coal. This is ludicrous on so many levels.
10-1-25, 1:13pm
Rogar

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Originally Posted by flowerseverywhere

There were some recent articles about Mark Zuckerberg new 300 million dollar yacht. Plus the 30 million dollar support vessel that travels with it to bring Porsches, wake boats and a submarine. And it’s carbon footprint.

so I started looking into carbon footprints and carbon offsets, which I had no idea you could purchase. I also perused some online carbon emission calculators, but the info did not include much of a picture of what you really used. It did classify us a low users based on the limited info, but we drive little and don’t fly, eat almost no meat, and use heating and cooling sparingly. I feel sometimes like it is a drop in the ocean compared to large industrial and private jet users for instance.

I've heard that yachts are the new status symbol among the silicone valley ultra rich. It probably all pales compared to the tanks, ships and jets in the Ukraine war. My personal philosophy is doing what is right regardless and I try to be conscious of my carbon footprint. My lifestyle is not a lot different from Flowers. I have a friend who uses some online calculator and buys carbon off-sets for all of his leisure travel. I suppose people do what they can and what they think is the best and there are books and arguments about it all. I don't have a good outlook for the future climate and environment, but there's some encouragement, too. I would have never thought a decade or two ago that EVs would be common, rooftop solar affordable, new green technologies that heat and cool homes efficiently, etc. A lot of things start with one person or a few people and grow.