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,. Transportation increase it too by using oil for car and vehicles that in California we use car everyday so it is a huge amount of CO2 released to the air. Also, some electricities are generated by fossil fuel that the burning of coal, oil, and natural can also increase your footprint that you created a lot of CO2 into the air when you use those electricity to power your house and electronic since it became a daily thing you need to expect the greenhouse are booming in crazy amount . Therefore, there are a lot of factor to increase carbon footprint.