Work out your carbon footprint!

The government have just set up a flash-happy website with an almost cuddly carbon calculator to help you increase your ever burgeoning guilt over destroying the environment with every breath. Pedantically speaking it should be the C02 Footprint as we don't actually have a problem with too much graphite or soot.

I was pleasantly surprised that my footprint is small at some tonnes (or whatever) and that my annual travel in a plane completely outweighed all the benefits of recycling et al. There aren't any outright hints on what a carbon footprint is, and how it matters and indeed if it really matters at all.

I like tests though and this is a wonderful inclusive pc test where nobody is right and nobody is wrong, and it has pretty colours and never once shows you the consequence of producing too much carbon (dioxide).