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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Reducing Carbon Footprints
I think that we can all play our parts in certain different ways, but I think that my fellow Americans and I need to contribute a bit more to reducing our carbon footprints, as our national averages for pollution are usually ranging from a bit higher to much higher that certain other countries, this may be because our country has more industry and production that others, but even us as ordinary people can play a part, as if 1 person does something about it, nothing changes. When 100 people do it, the effect is multiplied by 100. When 100,000 people do it, by 100,000 compared to the original person doing it. Many people have to make changes or else nothing will change.