BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — Esteban Gast remembered a feeling of shame he had in high school while calculating how much carbon dioxide, the main driver of climate change, his daily activities created, known as a carbon footprint.
“Have you ever driven a car or flown in an airplane?” were among the long list of questions posed by the calculator.
Unspooling his story in the middle of his set at Flappers Comedy Club in Burbank, Calif., Gast pivoted quickly to describe for the crowd how oil and gas giant BP popularized the idea of tracking individual emissions. That, he said, was aimed at shifting responsibility for climate change from the
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