{"id":84031,"date":"2020-07-21T09:34:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T17:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:/wp-json/wp/v2/article/84031///wp-json/wp/v2/article/84031//www.yesmagazine.org/wp-json/wp/v2/article/84031//?post_type=article&p=84031"},"modified":"2020-07-21T09:34:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T17:34:28","slug":"carbon-footprint-big-oil","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:/wp-json/wp/v2/article/84031///wp-json/wp/v2/article/84031//www.yesmagazine.org/wp-json/wp/v2/article/84031//environment/wp-json/wp/v2/article/84031//2020/wp-json/wp/v2/article/84031//07/wp-json/wp/v2/article/84031//21/wp-json/wp/v2/article/84031//carbon-footprint-big-oil","title":{"rendered":"A Brief (and Frustrating) History of the Carbon Footprint"},"content":{"rendered":"/wp-json/wp/v2/article/84031/n
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I/wp-json/wp/v2/article/84031/u2019ve long fretted about the personal change/wp-json/wp/v2/article/84031//system change debate, worried that the weight was unevenly born by individuals even though I strongly believe the former is a necessary catalyst for the latter. But maybe I/wp-json/wp/v2/article/84031/u2019m J.K. Rowling-level wrong. Maybe we can skip the skipping straws and go straight to table-flipping the system. At least, that/wp-json/wp/v2/article/84031/u2019s how I feel this week, after learning that yet another term I use frequently is actually BP propaganda, designed to push responsibility for the burning of the planet onto consumers, onto the already overweighted side of personal responsibility. That phrase: carbon footprint./wp-json/wp/v2/article/84031/n/wp-json/wp/v2/article/84031/n/wp-json/wp/v2/article/84031/n/wp-json/wp/v2/article/84031/n

I/wp-json/wp/v2/article/84031/u2019ve long known that oil was behind messaging to shift carbon emissions from their effing problem to our collective challenge, but the fact that BP literally designed the metric by which we measure our personal emissions is deepwater insidious. /wp-json/wp/v2/article/84031/u201cIt/wp-json/wp/v2/article/84031/u2019s time to go on a low-carbon diet,/wp-json/wp/v2/article/84031/u201d they said. All that extremely important work done by well-meaning organizations to make people consider the emissions in their daily lives is somehow covered in the slick of nefarious spin. Yes, big polluters and their PR trolls have forced other words into the vernacular, but this one feels, well, personal. It/wp-json/wp/v2/article/84031/u2019s literally my carbon footprint. How dare a shill have made it up and stuck it inside my brain?/wp-json/wp/v2/article/84031/n/wp-json/wp/v2/article/84031/n/wp-json/wp/v2/article/84031/n/wp-json/wp/v2/article/84031/n

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