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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Using less electricity
In a rising society, technology has become a major part of the world today. Without technology, people would have to handwrite and send letters/ emails. Using all this technology has caused a massive rise in energy ever since the first computer. Use of technology will keep rising and rising until the end of time because humans keep developing newer and better versions of the technology we currently have. The making of new technology will cause massive amounts of carbon to go into the atmosphere, which will raise the level of greenhouse gases. If people could use less technology and more natural energy sources, our greenhouse gas levels would plummet greatly.