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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How to stop climate change?
Reducing is the first step to changing your habits and helping to stop climate change. Stop buying items with a lot of packaging and start using reuseables instead. For example, using paper or cloth bags to substitute for plastic grocery bags ,using metal or bamboo straws instead of plastic ones and lastly using water bottles. All these may not seem to impact a lot if it’s just one individual person, however if everyone could come together to take one of these ideas and implant it into their lives, it could change the world.