How Big Oil helped push the idea of a 'carbon footprint'
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Your carbon footprint helps you identify actions you can take to personally fight climate change. It also shifts responsibility away from petrochemical companies. If that seems convenient for Big Oil, it's because the carbon footprint concept was popularized in part by oil giant BP.
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| 0:49.8 | Each December, the Oxford University Press, which publishes the Oxford English Dictionary, names |
| 0:55.7 | a word of the year. |
| 0:57.4 | The publisher says the word or expression is one that reflects, quote, the ethos, mood, |
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| 1:15.4 | charisma for further explanation, see Tik-Tok. Back in 2007 though, Oxford's |
| 1:22.2 | UK Word of the Year, or phrase rather, was carbon footprint. |
| 1:28.0 | You know you should probably reduce it, but what exactly is your carbon footprint? |
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