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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Transportation and flights
transportation is one of the largest fontributors to carbon emissions, mostly from air travel and car usage. Many people rely on their cars for daily activities from short distances to long and that increases the carbon footprint a lot. Flights are very harmful to the environment mostly because of the large amount of emissions that they produce in a short time. Traveling abroud by plane can always have a bigger impact then your daily car activities combined for a long time. Its very important to try and use sustainable ways to travel like cycling and walking or using public transport.
In my opinion transportation habits can be easy to change if people want to put in the effort.