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Consider these two people: One flies weekly for work; the other lives in a studio apartment and walks to the office every day. On the surface, it\u2019s clear here who has the bigger carbon footprint. Flying is\u00a0notoriously awful<\/a>, emissions-wise, and when you compare a weekly flight to the energy use of a small home and the emissions of a daily walking commute, the outcome is obvious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But here\u2019s a wrinkle: The weekly flier is a climate scientist who travels around the world teaching about the dangers of climate change. The second person works for a marketing agency, making ads\u00a0like this<\/a>\u00a0for an oil company. So who is contributing more to the climate emergency, really?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The \u201cclimate shadow,\u201d a concept that help each of us visualize how the sum of our life\u2019s choices influence the climate emergency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":630,"featured_media":54978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,535,3880,12],"tags":[3923,217,1530],"yoast_head":"\nShift the focus from carbon footprint to climate shadow<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The \u201cclimate shadow,\u201d a concept that help each of us visualize how the sum of our life\u2019s choices influence the climate emergency.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2023\/10\/shift-the-focus-from-carbon-footprint-to-climate-shadow\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" 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