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?
Student Footprints >
Is it counter-productive to focus on what we can do vs what corps can?
I think that while most of us could probably reduce our footprint by a lot, focusing on that can be ultimately un-productive, or even counter-productive, in some cases.
If you look at how much carbon Oil companies, amazon, etc create, it dwarfs the ammount that we ourselves create. I think that instead of focusing on what we as individuals can do, we should focus on activism in order to get governments & companies to instate new policies that reduce their footprint, and work towards climate goals.
In the end, something is still better than nothing.