All of you have calculated your emissions and you have surely discovered the unexpectedly high impact of some of your behaviors (eating meat, flying to a sunny destination, etc.) on your total footprints.
Are there any behaviors that you are really willing to change or to improve for the sake of the environment? What challenges do you encounter or think you will encounter while trying to change these things? What help, support, and insights from others would make your life easier with these new behaviors?
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The Growing Global Carbon Footprint and It's Concequences
The growing human population is one of the many problems humanity is facing. Every person has an individual carbon footprint which affects our atmosphere with greenhouse gases and climate change. Every person on average has a carbon footprint of around 4,700 kgs (according to google). A quick calculation shows that the global carbon footprint is around 37.6 trillion kgs if the population is exactly 8 billion (which it’s not, it’s higher than that). That number is extremely high and will heavily impact our atmosphere. T
he population is expected to reach 10 billion around 2060-2070. At that point the global carbon footprint could be around 47 trillion kgs. This number could also get way larger if technology over times increases the average carbon footprint per person. Some consequences of this carbon footprint include: an increase in natural disasters, floods, unpredictable weather, and a heavy increase in global temperature.
This can all be avoided however, we as a population can cut back on some costly lifestyle choices that increase our carbon footprint, such as being responsible for when we run our water, and turn on the lights. Technology could also benefit our carbon footprints in the future by reducing the amount of carbon used for everyday items such as cars, lights, fans, etc. The future doesn’t have to be a scary doomsday scenario and it’s not too late to turn around and heal the planet so we don’t end up with an atmosphere similar to Venus.