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Re:Iceland’s forest and bush cover has increased sixfold sin... by morsch on Monday July 18, 2022 @09:01AM (#32137820)
The article claims that a PR campaign "popularized" the term "carbon footprint" in 2000. That's pretty vague and I'm not going to dispute it. The article doesn't claim BP coined the phrase.

In German, it's more common to refer to an ecological footprint, its usage which goes back to at least 1992, and it wasn't coined by a PR company, but by very straight laced environmentalists.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/095624789200400212

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Re:Iceland’s forest and bush cover has increased sixfold sin... by avgcorrection on Monday July 18, 2022 @10:31AM (#32138839)
Ecological footprint is where BPs spinoff/appropriation comes from.
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