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 >
Necessities and Wants
Of course there are things in our society that are not necessary for our survival, and I agree that we are a very materialistic society. However, I don't think a little bit of luxury is necessarily a bad thing. It is only healthy in moderation, and when it is not too widespread. Do you think we have gone too far in terms of unnecessary luxury?
I consider that not all of the things we want are main necessary. We always want object which we don't really use. If we will stop to buy things that are unnecessary , we will do a little step to save the Earth