My total footprint is 8,690 kgs of CO2 per year. With home being the cause of 5003 kgs. Food being 1885 kgs, purchases being 656 kgs, and transportation being 1,146 kgs. Ways to reduce my carbon footprint would be to recycle more, and reduce my AC usage. Another way would be to increase my energy efficiency as a whole at home.
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I think your carbon emission is certainly high. However I do agree that changing habits can help to lower your emission, especially in some areas such as personal purchasing. You do not have to always buy new things like clothes or electronic devises, because we all make unnecessary purchases that we do not actually need. Moreover, for your AC usage, you could try to use only in extreme heat: personally I try to use it at least as possible. For example, I first open the door to let the air pass before using AC. Therefore , I have to admit that transportation emission can be hard to reduce especially if you live far away from your school. The best would be to use common transportation as much as possible or even walk. I think that being conscious about your consumption is part of changing our habits to reduce our carbon emissions. So even the small steps such as turning off AC or just lower our home energy consumption as much as possible can contribute. I would also add that acknowledging our carbon emissions and the changes that we have to do like you did, is crucial to actually lower emission.

Personally , when I discover carbon emission , I did not expect it would be that enormous, especially for transport or even food. I think that knowing more about it now, I am even more conscious about my consumption and its effects on the environment. I want to try to lower my emission as much as possible by  recycling more like you proposed to do, or try to eat less meat.