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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Pollution
In general there are many ecological problems and environment is one of the world's discussed topic. As for me, from childhood I have always been excited about how many different animals live in our forests. I thought that these beautiful and sweet beings lived a good life and they were happy. Once my family and I were on holiday. We wanted to pick mushrooms, and some berries. When we were walking we came across a place where was trash. And at that moment, I realised what I thought about, was wrong. I don't know how peple live in such big cities where there are so many factories, plants and so on. Moreover chemical industry is the biggest polluter causing water pollution. And people cannot go somewhere on holiday and besides different species of fish die. I think it's high time we did something about this.