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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What is the factor that increase carbon footprint?
The factor that increase carbon footprint can be a lot. For example, food, use of electricity, transportation, the thing you buy, and anything that was made of natural resource. Food is a factor of carbon footprint because you need land for food produce that include farmland and land for livestock cow and chicken those need natural resource too.The more you buy anything that contain resource then you are increasing you are Transportation increase it too by using oil for car and vehicles. Also, some electricities are generated by burning fossil fuel. Therefore, there are a lot of factor to increase carbon footprint.