Hi! I was honestly shocked by my carbon footprint. My family is extremely lucky to be able to travel a lot, which sadly means that my carbon footprint was over 3 times the average in my area.

Seeing how much transport changed my footprint, I realize it is the issue for the average consumer that needs the most attention. Without air travel, my footprint was roughly 1/3 of the average, yet just by adding travel, it increased exponentially.

Hi Pablo, I also encountered this problem while discovering my own carbon footprint. My own footprint was somewhere around four to five times the average.  Although we are blessed to have the ability to travel, we are also hurting the environment greatly. For some people, this travel could be a necessity that they must do for a lot of time. Take professional athletes as an example, the teams all fly for all of this game and that is only the start of those who require aviation. Do you think there could be any possible solutions to this problem?

I also had a rather high transportation footprint, as well as my overall total. Traveling accounted for 19,031 kilograms of my overall footprint, which is 27,886 kilograms. Most of this came from traveling to and from school, which is a 45 mile round trip every day. Flying to Washington D.C. for a school trip and making a cross country flight to visit family in the northeast also contributed a significant amount to the grand total. I wish for the future to have efficient, environmentally friendly methods of air travel, considering that airplanes "might be most people's biggest carbon sin". This NYT article mentions how the US is banned from participating in the European Union's Emissions Trading System (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/sunda … ravel.html). If this is such a big problem that it is affecting global trade, everyone should work together to come up with alternatives.