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 >
Warm Water
One thing that scares me the most when it comes to climate change/global warming is the warming of the oceans caused by trapped greenhouse gases and too much carbon in the atmosphere. All the extra heat melts the icecaps, heats up the rest of the darker water, and kills tons of fish or forces them to relocate to other locations where they could be eaten by predators. We need to focus more attention to the carbon in the atmosphere to save all the fish in the water and food webs all over the globe.