Transportation was the highest part of my carbon footprint. I think it is because my family and I travel a lot and we have to travel by plane to get to another country. We mostly travel to see my family because some of them live there. Some of my family members are unable to get on a plane and travel for a long period of time so my family has to go to them.

Other than the transplantation was the rest of your carbon footprint relatively low?

Transplantation?

I think if the other components of your carbon foot print are fairly low then it is fine that you travel by plane. Everyone needs to see their family in other countries.

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There are many things that I need that contribute largely to my carbon footprint data, but there is also a lot more that I don’t necessarily need but want. My huge want that I had that contributed to an increase in my carbon footprint was in the category of transportation. I gained 29,000 just from this category which was more than half of my carbon footprint. Planes were a big problem for me. Plane rides took up 13,000 of my carbon footprint, almost half of my carbon footprint in travel. I travelled to two place in the last year, Hawaii, and New York, and I know there are people in my city that did at least two times as more flights than me. I think that this has to change, I now vacationing is fun and it is great to go to other places in the world but solutions need to be made. For one people could take longer trips, and instead of going to lets say France one year and Germany the next go to both of them in the same year to decrease the amount of flights needed to take people back and forth.
    My second big issue that increased my carbon footprint ws food. I am not vege tarian at all, I love meat and I won’t stop eating it, but I know there is a way to fix that. I on average have maybe one vegetarian meal per week. That is not good, it means that I am eating more meat, which actually takes tons of gallon of water to make. For one cows and other animals need tons of water to grow to their full age before they can be eaten. Also, it takes energy and fuel to make the water feed to the animals drinkable, as it has to grow through many different cleansing stages. A way to help help prevent so much water being wasted and greenhouse gases into the air is to eat more vegetarian meals. You don’t have to become only vegetarian for the rest if your life, but maybe eating three vegetarian meals in one week would make a huge difference, and maybe even trying to go vegetarian for selected months would also help.
    Finally, car rides affected my carbon footprint. Travelling locally wasn’t too bad, I didn’t travel that much within my city, but finding other ways to get around your city would help. Taking the local bus or carpooling places would definitely help, but the real problem was longer drives to vacation spots around my own area. I travelled almost six times last year and almost all of the car rides took at least three hours, sometimes taking seven. This definitely affected by carbon footprint because long distances put a lot of gas into the air. There aren’t a lot of solutions taking a break from the stress from your regular day life is needed. One main solution that comes to my mind is energy efficient cars, yes I know that they are known to not have enough battery life to get you long distances, but you could get a hybrid and refill your gas and there are some gas stations that have the battery charger for a car, but getting a hybrid would definitely help.
Sources: Clark, Duncan. "The Surprisingly Complex Truth about Planes and Climate Change | Duncan Clark." The Guardian. Guardian News and Media, 09 Sept. 2010. Web. 29 Sept. 2016. https://www.theguardian.com/environment … s-shipping

Car Emissions and Global Warming." Union of Concerned Scientists. Web. 29 Sept. 2016. http://www.ucsusa.org/clean-vehicles/ca … -2AJfkrIdU