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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Vegan?
Maybe it is worth giving up meat and animal byproducts to create a cleaner. World.
...or at least reduce one's consumption of these things. Although going totally vegan is a laudable goal, one danger is setting goals too high, not reaching them, and backsliding to square 1.
Giving up meat is probably a good idea because it would reduce the burning of fossil fuels. Giving up meat also will conserve animals and you will live a healthier lifestyle as well.
Giving up meat is a good way to cut back on your carbon footprint because we will not need as many animals to feed people also this will help cut back on habitat loss for animal grazing.