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?
Student Footprints >
The Livestock Issue
As mentioned by many others in this discussion forum, livestock greatly harms the environment. It is estimated agriculture accounts for 25% of all pollution, and livestock is a large portion of this. I think one solution is to make more stringent regulations and policy that prevents companies from abusing animals and the environment. I think if we have better livestock policy, the livestock industry can be cleaned up and become less environmentally destructive. However as an individual, we can all do things that don't drastically change our diet to cut down on our own footprint. For one, we can eat less red meat specifically. Oxford found that cutting red meat consumption specifically - red meat produces 5 times as much emissions than any other livestock - would bring your carbon footprint down significantly.