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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Student Footprints
After looking through the carbon world map, schools in the United States and other highly developed and industrialized areas tend to have higher carbon outputs. Below is a chart showing the CO2 outputs (in kg) from different regions of the world. The US, highly developed and industrial, has the highest output of the three. Europe, also developed but a more eco-friendly area. And Southeastern Asia, less developed and less industrialized than the other two, has the lowest CO2. (I chose three random schools from each area, this could be more exact but this is good) I think this is due to the residents of less developed areas using less carbon-intensive methods for transportation and food.
USA 20533.3kg
Europe 11638.7kg
Asia 7338kg