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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We need to have more electric cars
I think electric cars, over time will do harm to the world in some way or form. The power to charge electric cars has to come from somewhere, and we would have to build more "Charging Stations", to get the power, we may burn fossil fuels in order to create power for the cars.
Although electric cars might be environmentally friendly, they would still cause many issues. The cost alone would discourage many people and then you would have to work in the amount of time it would take to charge the cars and how long the charge would last. Maybe a better solution would be a reusable fuel like using trash to generate vehicles.