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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To go green or not to go green ?
Nowadays, people do not care about ecology and they think other people should worry about it but they do not understand the importance of not polluting our planet.
Our planet is in danger because of many different reasons. People aren't willing to recycle, eat organic food, stop throwing garbage or even save energy. Comfort is one of the biggest reasons why people do not care about the Earth. People just don't have time for themselves so why would they have time for recycling or composting when they can just throw it all in the garbage and blame someone else for it. Global warming is a very serious problem. The climate is changing rapidly. Fifty years ago it was impossible for a winter to pass without snow, now it is completely normal. One of the world's biggest glaciers in Alaska has melted 15% in eight years and that is absolutely not normal. What are we going to leave to our children? Life will become impossible by the time they grow up! Air will become so polluted that in a hundred years we will have to wear gas masks.
Previous generations have left is with clear Ear th and now we have to leave it to new generations with it as well. I think we should go green so the next generations have somewhere to live in peace and prosper.