My Carbon footprint was much higher than average but only because of one main factor: travel. Not only was my transportation excessive but the number of flights that I have taken in the past year greatly affected my carbon footprint. A combination of driving far for sports shopping often and vacation put my carbon footprint at 50,081. However, my average for almost every other category was significantly low. I was wondering how it's possible to decrease Carbon footprints if a majority of it is from travel.

I completely agree with this. It is crazy how much flying affects emissions. for example I took multiple flights across the U.S. and one to France and my travel emissions was 11,000. A website called the David Suzuki foundation https://davidsuzuki.org/what-you-can-do … te-change/ says that by 2050 if emissions keep up at this rate that a quarter of all emissions will be from flying. In conclusion I agree with you and it should be more clear to people how much their polluting.

I agree with both of you that the amount of emissions created by cars and planes is absurd.  Last year, I took a plane twice and that made up for almost half of my transportation emissions.  I did some research to find ways to decrease one's travel emissions and discovered a website by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.  It discussed many ways to lower your emissions that are easy and cost-efficient.  For example, by carpooling with friends or taking public transit, you can lower the number of miles driven allowing for fewer emissions.  Driving aggressively can also affect your emissions as speeding, rapid acceleration, and braking can waste gas.  Overall, by learning what little things are affecting our emissions, we can start to change our habits and lower our carbon footprint.

Source: https://www.epa.gov/transportation-air- … nd-engines

I agree with all of you that traveling hugely affects emissions. It really surprised me that more than half of my carbon footprint was made up of just transportation. I further researched this topic by looking up how to reduce my carbon footprint and found a website called COTAP. They suggested many easy ways to reduce my emission such as only driving when necessary. COTAP recommended walking or biking to closer places and also trying to avoid traffic when you drive. Traffic creates unnecessary CO2 and you should try to find different ways to get to your destination or just wait out the traffic. All in all, if we change these little things, we can start reducing our carbon emissions and shrink our carbon footprint as a whole.