'Carbon Footprint' is Part of the Problem

[unspeakablehorror]

I hate the term carbon footprint with a burning passion.  Like can you imagine any other complicated process where there's problems throughout the entire process but people laser focus on the last step of the process like 'if I just keep tweaking this last step enough that will surely fix all the rest of the problems that happen beforehand, too'.

It's just completely wrongheaded.