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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OUR constant impulse to BUY STUFF
Everyone is guilty of indulging themselves in unnecessary frivolities. We prefer to go out to dinner on the weekends than to stay home and cook. We like traveling in planes and keeping the heat on during Winter. We buy things- objects that just junk up our houses. Especially among women, going on extensive shopping trips to malls is encouraged in mainstream media. Because of this, we end up possessing a large quantity of plastic bags and a lot of things that we'll end up throwing away.