Green Daily

This is either really depressing news, or a wake-up call: No matter how hard you work to keep your greenhouse emissions to a minimum, if you live in the United States, you will emit more greenhouse gasses than the world's average per capita baseline.

The students in a class at MIT calculated carbon emissions for a range of lifestyles, from super-rich people (Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey) down through homeless people living in shelters. Because they divided up all of the emissions created by the government evenly, so that each person in the US would bear an equal share of the carbon created by government buildings, road-building, the military, etc, it turns out that just by walking down the street in New York you waste more carbon than the average Earthling.

This adds new weight to an argument that many have been making: individual changes won't add up to a giant difference when it comes to greenhouse gasses; we need to change the very structure of how things operate, from the ground up...