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Kiashu, after a first quick read I am very impressed. You've come up with an approach that is simple enough for people to understand and to use day to day. I am sure there is room to refine some of the details and no doubt plenty of TOD members will suggest improvements. Also no doubt someone will object to a climate-focused posting on TOD. I am just delighted that you have put forward a practical offering for us all to think over and contribute to. Great work!
Cheers, Mark
I'm glad you liked it.
As I understand it, ANZTOD is a bit more climate change-focused than is TOD as a whole.
But as I said in the article, even if you don't care about climate change, most of the ways you'd reduce your Carbons spending - less or no driving cars and plane flights, get wind-derived electricity, etc - would also reduce consumption of fossil fuels.
I can certainly imagine lifestyles where you'd use very little fossil fuels and still cause lots of greenhouse gas emissions - for example if you do slash and burn agriculture, or eat lots of beef - but I cannot imagine a lifestyle where you use a lot of fossil fuels but do not also cause lots of greenhouse gas emissions.
So that all low-¢ spenders will be low fossil fuel consumers, but big ¢-spenders may be low or may be high fossil fuel consumers.
Thus, even though my focus was on avoiding or mitigating climate change, aiming at being a low ¢-spender would mitigate peak fossil fuels, too. And I think all sections of TOD, excepting only a few doomers with fantasies of gunning down hordes of cannibal suburbanites, are in favour of making peak fossil fuels not hit us as hard as it could.