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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Impact of 4 people eating meat
While doing my calculations, I noticed that a carnivore diet with four people produces a lot of CO2.
I agree that carnivore diets produces greater amounts of CO2 than a vegetarian or vegan diet. This is due to many things but one of the greatest contributors is the food needed to feed the animals that could have been used to just feed humans. Personally when driving past cow farms it highlights all of the resources needed to create meat.
I put that I wasn't a vegetarian and immediately got an extreme amount of C02 as well. I guess just one thing to help with C02 impacts would be to eat less meat or just eat smaller bits of it.