Aside: Carbon Emissions
My personal results from the carbon quiz here (damn and blast the stupid javascripts that prevent direct linking to pages! gnaaah!) are approximately 20,558 lb of carbon emissions per year. To put that in perspective, that’s apparently equivalent to 2.02 passenger cars’ annual output. Yikes. Lots o’ room for improvement!
To put it in context, though, the standard American carbon load is 44,312 lb per year per person.
To put that in context, your standard French carbon load is 13,668 lb annually per person. Holy fuck. Somehow it’s not quite fair that they get better veg, better wine, better weather, better access to other European countries, and a better carbon load, even if they don’t really wear berets and stripey shirts all the time. (And I say that as someone who’s inordinantly fond of berets and stripey shirts, having several of each.)
Perhaps my charming employer will set up a branch office in Paris — or Stockholm, or London, or Berlin — and allow me to relocate there. Purely for sustainability reasons, of course. It’s not like I’m a Eurogroupie or anything. (Perish the thought! Erm. Well, it’s not like it’s a fetish or anything. I just feel more like myself when I’m there, that’s all: like I’ve finally come home after a long exile.) It would only be so we as an association could, as it were, “walk the talk” on an international leadership level about promoting sustainability and a healthy approach to consumption and so on. Really! No personal benefit would be involved at all, obviously.
(Did anyone at all buy that last bit? Anyone?)
