Reducing your carbon footprint is not necessarily as easy as people are saying. It takes a bit more concentration on your part. You have to be more aware of the world around you. For example, buying local foods would take a little bit of concentration while you are reading labels, or it would take a little bit more of your time if you decided to go to the Farmers market. Anyhow, Loren Mooney wrote an interesting article on how the U.S could reduce carbon emissions without crippling the economy, and I encourage everyone to check it out.

I completely agree with your statement about the fact that people are making it seem fairly easy to reduce your carbon footprint, but in reality it isn't. The biggest carbon user is the petroleum used in transportation, not to mention that according to Treehugger transportation by car is very inefficient, meaning about 75% of the carbon used it just wasted as heat. So here is the solution. Lloyd Alter from Treehugger says we must completely get rid of cars altogether. His argument is that car sellers can promote fuel efficient cars all they want, but in the end many of these cars are super small and not big enough for the average size family to be in together. He is saying that if we work to get rid of cars and opt to bike, walk, and take public transportation our carbon footprints would all be much smaller. This would allow our world to be a much healthier place.