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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Should more people be vegetarian?
I saw this video on how being vegetarian can positively effect you and your CO2 emissions. A very large portion of the world is devoted to meat/livestock farms and it causes a very large amount of carbon dioxide and methane emissions, since CO2 and methane are both greenhouse gasses they Impact climate change and our invioronment very negatively. Going vegetarian seems small but if we can cut back on our meat intake it could really help our enviornment.
Link to video --> http://cleanvideosearch.com/media/actio … NUoAdXfA60
I personally am not vegetarian but i hope to eat meat less
so are you going vegetatrian?
The meat industry is also super unethical... Take a look at PETA's instagram..
There are ways to find ethically sourced meats, for example local markets are more expensive but also a lot better for you, the animals, and your carbon footprint.
Some places do have ethically sourced meat, yes. Send your evidence.
I'm not being sarcastic, I'd actually like to know more about ethically produced meat
Also I feel like looking at it from an ethics point of view it is better to eat higher meat yielding animals like beef and bison. One cow or buffalo supplies a lot more meat than a chicken. Overall less lives are lost if we eat animals like them.
The meat industry is seriously messed up. There are other ways to find sources of proteins like there are in meat, but that doesn't necessarily mean we need to stop eating meat. It's a primal instinct for us but still, the meat industry just needs to be fixed, so not everyone needs to be vegetarian.
I agree with your point that cows and bison have more meat, but less lives will not be lost if we only eat them. Cows are mass procreated, (which stems from the dairy industry) so the same amount of meat is taken from all animals. Also, chickens are pumped so full of steroids that they have more meat than an average chicken
I agree with you Lindsay, but the meat industry most likely can't be helped.
if you source meat from local free range farms it's a lot better for the animals and for yourself
noadoron, even if people eat meat from local free range farms, their primary source of food is still grain, which will still pollute the atmosphere with methane. "Free Range" just means they're not pent up in a cage.