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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Environmental Pollution
Everything that surround us constitutes the environment. Our natural environment includes the air we breathe, the water, oceans, forests, soil, vegetation, other living species... all are the part od the environment. Today this environment is threatened by a number of human activities leading to ‘Environmental Pollution’.
Incessant combustion of fossil fuels emits toxic gases, polluting the air; toxic waste is disposed by factories into our water bodies, rendering then unusable and damaging life. There could be hundreds of examples of human induced environmental pollution, but finding a solution to them, also lies on us humans.