Do you have the guilts about your carbon footprint?  If you don’t, you should.

Here’s an NPR story about a writer’s opinion that making people feel guilty about their carbon footprint “can lead to paralysis”.  I have to say this is ca-ca.  Guilt leads to action, if the opportunity is available.  The green movement needs to make people feel guilty about hopping on a plane for meetings that could have been done via videoconferencing.  But we also need to provide an option when reducing carbon output is not realistic.

Fortunately, there’s an easy way to assuage that guilt.  It is called “carbon offsetting”.   Just go to a web site, calculate your unavoidable carbon emissions, and purchase an offset.  The provider  uses your money to reduce carbon emissions elsewhere, or capture carbon already in the air.  Much more on this in another post.

For now – please feel guilty.  Please make your friends and business associates feel guilty.   We need to feel guilty.  We’re trashing the world in the interest of another dollar, or a few minutes of comfort.  And we’re hurting ourselves at the same time.  Much more on this in another post also.

But doesn’t just feel guilty – do something about it.  Start here.  Do it now.  Make a difference today.