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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Climate Change Effect on Humans
According to "The Impacts of Climate Change
on Human Health in the United
States: A Scientific Assessment" https://health2016.globalchange.gov/, the increase in greenhouse gases like carbon can impact people by giving them stress disorders, it becomes easier to get diseases from food, water, and air, and increase in sensitivity all around. This means that the wellbeing of the human race decreases as carbon and other greenhouse gases increase. Health risks are more common due to human vulnerability.
This is very fascinating as I have never heard this before. That is interesting that a problem that us humans created is coming back to us. If we do not take action on the amount of greenhouses gases in our atmosphere by decreasing the amount that we are creating, humans will suffer for a much longer time.