No Impact Man follows author Colin Beavan journey of creating no net environmental impact, in terms of carbon usage and waste production. Colin is an average liberal New Yorker who lives with his wife, Michelle and daughter, Isabella. He was always the person to blame others for the tragedies happening on earth like over hunting and global warming. That is until Colin had an epiphany while in elevator on an unseasonably warm winter day. An article on the destruction of the polar bear’s ecosystem induced this realization, he notes “Researchers knew this because they found their limp white bodies bobbing on the waves I the middle of the sea” (Beavan, pg. 8). This is when he realized the hypocrisy in terms of global warming awareness. He says
