Over the past three days, I have learned a lot about carbon footprints, greenhouse gasses, and climate change. To start, I learned that people with higher incomes typically have a higher carbon footprint than those who live more modestly. This is because people with higher incomes generally travel more in cars and planes and they buy more stuff. Some ways to reduce your carbon footprint and prevent releasing more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is to walk or bike more instead of driving, shop locally, borrow instead of buying, and go thrifting. Additionally, I learned that greenhouse gasses, like Carbon Dioxide, are electrically lopsided which allows them to absorb infrared heat. As CO2 takes in this energy, it vibrates and re-emits half of the infrared energy in to space and half of it back as heat to Earth. Because we are releasing so many CO2 emissions, more and more heat is getting trapped within our atmosphere, causing Earth to heat up too much. This is why it's important to lower our carbon footprints and monitor our carbon dioxide usage.