The most interesting part of this article to me is that carbon offsets to cover 12T of CO2 emissions comes out to only $10/month. I've never looked into personal carbon offsets before, but that seems really cheap.
Unfortunately of course, that will only do so much, because the growing global demand for things like air travel, personal car ownership, meat in diets, or air-conditioning mean the numbers on this chart will start to get uglier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...