I plugged in Ingrid's lifestyle information thru an online carbon footprint calculator and it spit out a rather startling figure. Her footprint amounts to 16 tons of Co2 emitted each year, double the hard to believe national average of 7.5. This is all due to air travel. By the time she visits family back in the US this coming Christmas she'll have logged nearly 100K air miles in her short lifetime. Again, child services....But I'd claim that as a lap child her footprint is far smaller since she doesn't occupy a seat, yet the airlines still charge me a 10% fare and full fuel surcharge to propel her tiny 25lb body to its end destination. The charge is a carbon offset of sorts, though the evil airlines keep the fee.
I plugged in Ingrid's lifestyle information thru an online carbon footprint calculator and it spit out a rather startling figure. Her footprint amounts to 16 tons of Co2 emitted each year, double the hard to believe national average of 7.5. This is all due to air travel. By the time she visits family back in the US this coming Christmas she'll have logged nearly 100K air miles in her short lifetime. Again, child services....But I'd claim that as a lap child her footprint is far smaller since she doesn't occupy a seat, yet the airlines still charge me a 10% fare and full fuel surcharge to propel her tiny 25lb body to its end destination. The charge is a carbon offset of sorts, though the evil airlines keep the fee. 
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