Carbon Offsetting: Changing the Way We Produce and Use Energy

Carbon dioxide gas (CO2), one of the most abundantatmosphere, there is a crucial need to find some
gasses in the atmosphere is however vital for life onclimate change solution.
earth but in today's time of industrialization, the gas is aThere are many and varied climate change solution
culprit causing ‘Global Warming',  a condition inthat we can use to protect our planet and life forms
which the temperature of the earth exceeds its normalsurviving on it, from the harmful effects of Global
causing the earth heats up. Carbon dioxide is essentialWarming. By reducing consumption of fossil fuels for
for plants for the processes of photosynthesis andour energy requirements, we can make a significant
respiration; both vital for life on the Green Planet, onechange in our daily life and so our total carbon
for making food and other for generating oxygen,footprints. We can calculate our carbon footprints by
without which we even cannot imagine a life on theusing a carbon calculator and can measure our impact
Earth.on our climate. Then we can try our best to reduce
Carbon dioxide was always present in theour carbon footprints. We can switch to alternative
atmosphere but this is only after the industrializationsources of energy like energy from wind, solar, wave,
that the concentration of carbon dioxide in thebio-fuels etc. to eliminate CO2 emissions.
atmosphere has raised dangerously causing imbalanceWe can adopt a carbon neutral lifestyle and save life
to the ecosystem of the Earth. As industrializationon earth, for e.g. we can go for carbon neutral flights
spread, the consumption of fossil fuel increased and itby purchasing carbon offsets and can significantly
has also increased the concentration of carbon dioxidereduce our carbon emissions.
in the atmosphere. Every person living on the earthPurchasing carbon offsets is the best way to lead a
and most man-made processes produce "carboncarbon neutral life, to actually help fund a project that is
footprints" (the measure of the amount of greenhouseable to prevent one ton of greenhouse gases from
gases, measured in units of carbon dioxide). As thebeing emitted for each ton that you have caused.
concentration of CO2 is continuously increasing in the