Yes, it's very discouraging and the effects of this disaster will be felt for generations, but it shouldn't change how you live, if you've been making efforts to live as best you can environmentally, continue on. Every little bit helps and as Rapaire said, part of what will help will be finding out why it happened.

Also- I wish we could do away with this "carbon footprint" slogan, it's become very Hollywood. Didn't we used to just say "environmentally aware" or something?

David E.