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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cutting down forests
Forests are cut down for many reasons, we hear them every day, but most important of them are related to money (like everything).
I think that people sometimes forget that money is not EVERYTHING, because if we have not health - no million dollars can help. Trees are one of the most easy and natural air-cleaning system to save our planet from air pollution and overproduction of CO2, but we just don't care. We always think about ourselves comfort and not about consequences too.