How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

Many popular approaches to working on climate change and other environmental problems probably aren't actually that helpful. Eating locally produced food is far less important than what food you choose to eat, because transportation is such a minor part of the emissions from food. Governments across the world have attempted to disincentivise the use of disposable plastic bags in favour of non-disposable alternatives - this may have increased emissions. Other things work, but could be really expensive, costing $100 or more per ton of carbon dioxide removed from or prevented from going into the atmosphere. We'll talk about ideas for cutting emissions that seem more cost effective below.