Why does most carbon footprint calculators ignore the fact? that many people have a garden, which will reduce your carbon emissions. For example if you have aforest on your back yard, your carbon footprint could be negative. 13% 1 Vote

Let us look at this scientifically. Plants have a process called photosynthesis, animals have a process called cellular respiration. I am simplyfying a bit here but, plants live off the carbon animals give off and animals live off the oxygen and glucose plants create, the two must be equal in order to maintain equilibrium. If there is too much of one or the other there is a problem in the equation. 13% 1 Vote

%26quot;your carbon footprint could be negative?%26quot;

actually not.
your garden doesn%26#039;t absorb in a year, what your car emits before it gets out of the driveway.

your forest is carbon neutral. it absorbs carbon to grow, then releases it when trees die and decay. or you burn the wood. 13% 1 Vote

Those Calculators just look at the footprint generated by a single event, such as a plane journey. If they asked questions about all your mitigating factors like %26quot;Do you have a forest in your backyard?%26quot;, it could get very silly. 13% 1 Vote

Not really, everywhere I walk I leave a %26quot;carbon footprint.%26quot; We are, after all, carbon-based life forms.

Boy, wouldn%26#039;t Al Gore love to tax every step we took, eh? 0% 0 Votes

Carbon footprint - is just another way to make the public feel guilty about living their lives and an excuse to con more money out of you to be wasted on something that today%26#039;s Buzz word. 0% 0 Votes

Yes the plants have done a great job. 13% 1 Vote

These only include your home and travel. 0% 0 Votes

Good point J G. 0% 0 Votes

carbon footprints are bull **** 13% 1 Vote