Climate change is the elephant in the room that everyone can see but many refuse to talk about. For some, it is even a taboo topic not welcome at dinner table talk, but in some parts of our world climate change and global warming have already started to creep into relevancy more than ever. On a global spectrum it is an issue that must be governed, but on a smaller scale there are ways we as individuals can reduce our own carbon footprints in lieu of the bigger picture.

A carbon footprint is the totality of all carbon dioxide released from a particular activity performed by an individual during a given period of time. There are many tell-tale signs of climate change in our society, and even more ways to combat them on a personal level. A few threatening signs of global warming are as follows: The area covered by…