Georgia Family Competes for World's Largest Carbon Footprint

You might recognize real estate agent Jim Bob Duggar from his famous Discovery Health series, or from the posters of his two congressional campaigns. Still don’t think you can recognize him? Well, that’s ok—just look for the guy walking around with 17 children. 

Oh, and number 18? It’s on the way.

Taking an average American carbon footprint to be 20.4 metric tons of carbon dioxide-per-year, then multiplying that by the twenty people that will soon be in the Duggar family, we find that it would take over 40,000 citizens of Chad to contribute to create that same mass of climate-warming emissions.

I don’t know about you, but I find that pretty darn impressive. And think, that’s just carbon. Imagine the dent the Duggar would put in the environment if you’d calculated their waste footprint, too.