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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Meat
The meat industry has quite an impact on climate change. For example the methane cows release is bad for the atmosphere and the water, energy, land, food etc used to maintain them. Eating less meat would reduce climate change somewhat since they'd need to raise less cows. I for one eat a lot of meat but I will try to reduce it.
this is a really good thought. climate change is a really serious cause around the globe. there's really nothing we can do about the methane except for eating less cows.
methane is only a small factor in the problem.
Methane is not completely dependent on cows.