• The Carbon Dioxide emissions that we're creating today will still be around in 100 years. Yes, it's true; it takes that long for CO2 to make its way out of the Earth's atmosphere.

• With Global Warming and the effects of too much CO2 already coming into play, it means that we've got to make drastic reductions – a recent report from the US Government suggested 70-90% reductions – now to stop the warming cycle.

• Since the Kyoto Protocol was signed in 1992, global CO2 emissions from the burning of fossil fuels have increased 35%. *

It's all enough to make her throw up her hands in disgust. How can her recycling, her use of public transportation and carbon credits when traveling, and her eat-local-buy-local edict make a dent? Whatever she does may feel insignificant, but it's not. When combined, the actions of individuals can add up to huge reductions in carbon emissions. For example:

Driving a hybrid car reduces CO2 emissions for that car by about 16,000 pounds a year. If half of the 62 million cars in America were hybrids, it would prevent 512,000,000,000 (that's billion!) pounds of CO2 from ever getting into the atmosphere.

*These facts are courtesy of stopglobalwarming.org.