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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Science and the Environment
Over the past 3 days, I've learned about your carbon footprint, greenhouse gases and climate change. From this, I'be gathered that transportation such as plains and car rides contributes highly to greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, I've learned that eating tropical fruits or other foods can equally contribute to rising emissions because of the high transport rate it takes to get the food across the country in order to eat. Lastly, I figured out that having house heating and cooling constantly on can add to greenhouse gasses. This all relates to each other because the three actions all take up a huge amount of energy and/or electricity.
To add on, I gathered from a green house gases information website that temperatures have gradually been rising over the years due to the trapped heat created from radiative gasses like carbon dioxide(Center for Climate and Energy Solutions).