Students from around the world calculated their class mean and standard deviations for their footprints and posted them on our world map.
Do you see differences across the globe? If so, why do you think those differences exist?
Did you use the calculator to try to reduce your footprint down to the average from a citizen of another country? What changes would you have to make to lower your footprint in this way? Are you going to try and take some of these actions in your daily life?
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Are carbon footprints made by people important in the bigger picture?
If you think about it, worrying about your own carbon footprint may be good and useful but the emissions made by companies are much easier to reduce and contribute much more to the carbon emitted by humanity. Focusing on reducing companies emissions should be priority number one and reducing carbon emission per person shouldn't be so stressed considering companies are responsible for much carbon emission plus deforestation, oil spills, destruction of habitats, and other harmful things for the environment.
That is true, one individual's carbon footprint cannot be compared to that of a large company. However, we still should do what we can, and try to convince companies to reduce their emissions gradually.