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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Differences in Transportation carbon footprint
I find it really interesting the drastic difference between the carbon released via transportation different areas of the world, in Bangladesh the amount was only around 200. However in some parts of the US the amount was as high as 17000. I think this gap is probably due to the difference in density of these places. In the US and other western countries, there is a lot of space compared to the actual population. With more spread out infrastructure, you need to drive more to get around, resulting in a higher carbon amount from transportation. However in places like Bangladesh and other very dense countries, you can walk around more to get where you need to go, making your footprint from transportation smaller.