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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Carbon Footprint and How Travel is Everything
When I was calculating my carbon footprint, I was surprised to find out how much travel affects our carbon footprint. While looking at other students' carbon footprints, I noticed that kids who didn't travel in the past year have a significantly lower carbon footprint. After doing some research online I learned, according to ScienceNews.org, travel contributes up to 1/5 of co2 emissions worldwide. Even though aircraft flights by themselves produce a lot of co2, much of it comes from activities such as driving. If we want to reduce co2 emissions then we have to reduce our travel or travel less distances. If you still want to travel, you can make up for the carbon emissions by doing smaller actions such as using more efficient lights or turning off your computer when you're not using it. If everyone took one small action, a big change could be made which could help give the world more time to develop more efficient technologies.
ScienceNews.org: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cli … -footprint