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But I guess Gore would counter that we can reduce our carbon footprint by offsetting it. For instance, do you have trees on your property? If so, you need to take those into account. So many airlines these days are offering carbon neutral tickets. You pay extra, they guarantee your flight will be carbon neutral. How? I can only assume they're planting trees.

Personally, I don't think individual contributions to carbon gasses are that big a deal. (In other words, I don't bother paying the carbon neutral fares.) What I would see as priorities - assuming, as I do, that producing carbon in great volumes is a problem - would include such issues as the wholesale clearing of forests in the Amazon and throughout South-East Asia (they cut everything down and then burn the waste, with fires that create so much smoke that intercontinental flights have to be rerouted!), the prospect that the massive industrial growth in China and India is taking place without the kind of environmental controls that are now commonplace in the West, and the difficulty in turning to alternative energy sources thanks to the NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) culture, i.e. Yes, I support hydro-electric dams but don't dam that river down the road from me because it's bad for the local ecology, will spoil my recreational amenity, and on, and on.