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 >
Stop and think
Maybe someday people won’t be on this planet. Maybe we will destroy it so much that we won’t be able to live here. Is that what we want? Is that what we need? I think not. Imagine not waking up looking out the window and seeing beautiful nature and believing in beauty because of it. I believe that the first beauty we see as a person is the beauty of nature. I would not be able to live without it.
Would you?
“What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?”