Parallelnormal is yours to take (with attribution, please), under a 
Before you blame yourself for not carrying your own grocery bag, it’s important to note that Bill Gate’s CO2 output (think private jets) is way bigger than yours. — mb
Leaving our mark - MIT News Office
The students conducted detailed interviews or made detailed estimates of the energy usage of 18 lifestyles, spanning the gamut from a vegetarian college student and a 5-year-old up to the ultrarich–Oprah Winfrey and Bill Gates. The energy impact for the rich was estimated from published sources, while all the others were based on direct interviews. The average annual carbon dioxide emissions per person, they found, was 20 metric tons, compared to a world average of four tons.
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This assumes all rich people live like Oprah and Bill Gates, which is not the case. Income level has nothing to do with carbon dioxide output. It is interesting that a U.S. homeless person has a larger footprint than the rest of the world. Homeless people must exhale more than the average human.
I blame global warming for my carbon footprint.