DYK—Interesting Facts on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The average American is responsible for a whopping 50,000 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions annually. Some examples of your carbon footprint are:
When your car’s engine burns fuel it creates CO2, the amount generated depends on its fuel consumption and the driving distance.
Heating your house with oil, gas, or coal also generates CO2.
Even if you heat (or cool) your house with electricity, CO2 is emitted during the generation of electrical power, most of which comes from coal in the US.
When you buy food and goods, the production of the food and goods creates CO2; again, the amount depends on where the foods and goods came from and how they were created.
Traveling on a plane generates CO2 in the same ways a car does.
Weddings even create CO2 emissions!
Consider all the indirect emissions you are in part responsible for: the roads we drive on, the schools our kids attend, the mall and grocery story, our shared military and city hall. It all adds up.