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 >
Let's show people how much we harm Mother Nature!
Hello from Romania! This is my first time attending to such a discussion and I hope I will manage to meet your expectations!
As regarding my carbon footprint, which I expected to be quite high, due to the fact that I live far from my school and I have to go back home weekly in order to take what I need, I want to try to reduce it by using more natural light to carry out my activities, have shorter showers and use more efficiently the water etc, etc.
But I know that this is not enough to reduce the CO2 level on a higher scale, so I would like to persuade more people into doing this test. I think that a vast majority of them are afraid of numbers and when they will the results, a little shock will occur and maybe some questions will arise in their minds, so that they may at least try to realize the fact that we destroy the planet and ourselves slowly.
I want to believe that a change will appear! So, I’ll do such an experiment and I invite you to try as well and tell me what happened after some time.
Hi, I think you are right, Valeria! I was very afraid of numbers, concerning the garbage I make! But everybody needs to understand how important is to realise what is to do to start keeping clear the nature around us. It is necessary to organise a campain to inform and involve the others in purifying the environment. The questionnaire we filled in was rigorous and created me some questions of what, where, when and how. What have you done so far?
I agree with everything you had to say. I know personally I was very scared to see how high my numbers were when I was calculating my carbon footprint because I didn't want to have to face the fact that I am harming our earth. Going through with the calculations though, I learned that I am actually putting out less CO2 than the average USA citizen. Getting this information made me realize that I still need to try my best to reduce the amount of CO2 put into the air as well as try to spread the word to others in my community and around the world to get them to understand how big of a problem this is. Hopefully after gaining knowledge of this big problem that we face on our earth, they will try to take steps to lessen the amount of CO2 they are putting into our air.
Alexandra- I think that the questionnaire is a really good idea for a way to spread the word on the waste we are putting into our air. Great thinking.
Nice to meet you, Tatjana! Maybe together we could take things step by step and, who knows, change something! ❤️