After taking my carbon footprint quiz something that I wasn’t really proud of was my transportation. My transportation last year was 11,300 kgs. Last year I did travel much more than I have over the past years so that did have a big impact on my carbon footprint. I went on a plane 7 times and some of the places were far but some weren’t that far. One of the trips I went on was to Los Angeles. In some ways I think would it even be better to fly or drive because both of those use of transportation burns a lot of fossil fuels. The U.S. is very dependent on gases and oils for the running of our country. We burn so many fossil fuels by factories and from cars, trucks, planes and more ways of transportation. In the U.S. alone from motor vehicles we burn 75% of carbon monoxide into the atmosphere. In cities like Los Angeles pollution is a big problem when looking over the horizon of the city you can see all the smog from cars and other automobiles. Another big factor of pollution and fossil fuel burning is from planes. For every one air mile, a plane produces around 53 pounds. So an average flight from San Francisco to New York is 2,572 mi and if you were to multiple that by the number produced per mile you get 136,316 of carbon polluted for that one flight. That is only one flight their not even back, and then you have to add another 136,316 for coming back and that’s 272,632 pounds of carbon polluted. This year I really want to watch my air travel for planes because pollution of planes is going to have a long term effect on me and everyone on this Earth. As humans, we really need to watch how much fossil fuels we are burning. I’m not saying that I want you to track the number of fossil fuels you burning every day but to be more aware of it. This is our earth and we only have one of it we need to take care of it!
https://auto.howstuffworks.com/air-poll … m-cars.htm
https://blueskymodel.org/air-mile

I enjoy that you acknowledged the fact the we don't need to track every thing but we need to be extremely aware of what we are doing to our environment. The statistics that you shared brought into perspective on the causes and effects of burning fossil fuels. You put all of these expansive and confusing statistics into a document that is really easy to understand. You put into perspective how much someone emits into the earth, the effects it has, and how we can stop it. Really well written, good job.