This is the year where everyone learned the term “carbon footprint”. Don’t pretend like you knew the expression in 2006, we all know you’re lying.

More specifically, this is the year we all learned how to “offset” our by recycling more, driving less, and masturbating with the lights off for a change.

But is taking responsibility for our individual impact on the global environment the only way to reduce dangerous emissions? Vanity Fair recently devised a way for each of us to offset the “asshole footprint” we leave on the planet, but I think that is only the beginning.

In honor of — for which I promised to write a post — here are six other “footprints” I believe we should offset to make this world a better place:

DC footprint

Do you talk about the housing market at parties? Do you ask people what they do for a living while drinking Rolling Rocks? Do you complain about the lack of dating options in the city? Do you thumb your nose at people who don’t have a Masters degree? Do you know at least one rower?

3-step plan to offset your footprint:
1. Move.
2. Seriously, get the fuck out of my city.
3. Why are you still here?

(LNS)-behavior footprint

Are you waking up too hungover to even consider puking? Did you drink so much the night before you drunk-texted everyone you know? Do you spend Monday mornings writing on your friends’ Facebook walls on Monday morning about how tanked you’re going to get this Friday? Do you call Adams Morgan Ad-Mo? Do you use terms like “turbo” unironically? Do people hate you?

3-step plan to offset your footprint:
1. Stop hanging out in Georgetown.
2. Put down the bottle.
3. Don’t promote flip cup as a sport.

GOP footprint

Are you a hypocrite? Do you wrap yourself around the American flag and call it patriotism? Do you espouse morality and tolerance while hating anyone different from you? Do you wipe your ass with the Bill of Rights and call liberals traitors to their country?

3-step plan to offset your footprint:
1. Vote Democrat in every election regardless of the candidate.
2. Stop using the word “liberal” like it’s a slur.
3. Adopt a wider stance.

Procreation footprint

Do you have kids? Do they wear Heelys? Do they lack such discipline that they punch people in the balls on the Metro? Did you name any of them Timmy?

3-step plan to offset your footprint:
1. Always wear a condom.
2. Stop having sex.
3. Listen to Bob Barker.

Blogging footprint

Do you have a blog? Do you whine about your problems/neighbors/phone service/boyfriend/DMV/Metro? Have you lost all contact with the outside world? When people ask you how you’re doing, do you tell them to just read your blog?

3-step plan to offset your footprint:
1. Don’t use the Internet for a month.
2. Stop discussing your Sitemeter stats; no one cares.
3. Go outside.

Argentine footprint

Do you think of your arrogance as a virtue? Do you think you’re better than Guatemalans? Do you hate the Brazil/German/England soccer teams? Do you speak Spanish correctly? When you walk down the street in a lightning storm, do you assume God’s taking your picture?

3-step plan to offset your footprint:
1. Stop eating meat.
2. Become ugly.
3. Lose the arrogance.

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Janet has written a short list of “Really Small Things I Do To Help the Planet”.

Also, to find out how many planets we’d need if everyone lived like you, go here. Here are my results:

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