Erase Your Footprint

Using a combination of energy efficiency and emissions offsets has become the primary way to Erase Your Footprint and reduce your impact on the environment. But if you go beyond the rhetoric, what does it mean to "Offset Your Emissions" or "Become Carbon Neutral" anyways? That's a question that we hope to help answer...

There is quite a bit of controversy regarding how we should deal with our impact on the environment. Some believe we must cut all but the most essential uses of fossil fuels. Others suggest using carbon offsets to counteract our impact. While some believe the threat of Global Warming is imagined and that no real steps are needed.

At Goodbye Carbon, we believe that our western culture - as well as the entire human race - relies heavily on the idea of consumption. Our jobs, homes, and lifestyles all require substantial amounts of energy and cutting back drastically on all of those things is unlikely (if not impossible). That is why we believe in a strategy of eliminating any wasteful consumption and then finding beneficial ways to offset the remaining emissions our lifestyles create.

Investing in offsetting and emission reducing projects will create a cleaner and more equitable world than trying to reduce our impact by reversing the effects of technology and progress.

To help clear up the confusion and understand common terms related to this conversation, check out our section called What Is a Footprint? or read about Emission Averages around the world.

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