Carbon footprints - Have you counted yours?

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One important aspect of global warming is carbon footprints. It gauges how much carbon an individual creates in his or her daily activites. Fuel consumption produces by far the most carbon monoxide and who better to represent this then airplanes? I calculated my journey of 33,000 thousand miles each way produced over 1200 tonnes of carbon. And how does this figure convert into something useful? Someone once said to me " It is not how much paper you used, it is how many trees you plant to replace the consumption." Right, and so I shall convert the carbon that my travel has used up into something useful. If you go onto the website www.carbonfootprints.com, it will convert the amount of carbon you caused and in turn you can request for trees to be planted to in place. So 1200 tonnes of carbon worked out to about 2 young trees to be planted at 7 pounds each. Is this the way to make amends? It sure is a solution. In this modern age, there is no way humans can stop using up the earth's resources. So the solution really is to fill up the voids we created as best as we could.