Tuesday, 21 April 2009

Carbon footprint





Carbon footprint is a summery of how our movements can be measured. It an implement to identify the main problem to global warming which are us and how simply we increase the problem by increasing carbon in the air.


To measure carbon footprint we have a unit is which called carbon emissions (ponds, tons or kg) and it means the amount of CO2 in the air. I have visited two sites and a lot of questions can be explained to describe how we measure carbon footprint. Let's mention some of them. The diet like meat, fish and vegan. In addition, what kind of vehicle you travel on? What kind of house you live on? And the number of persons lives on that house. One more point is the types of waste do you recycle and compost.



I compared my carbon footprint with my classmates also with my country. I found that the majority of persons have high carbon footprint which is unbelievable including me. My average is 7.23 and it is lower than my country average. I have also compared myself with the some numbers in the classmates and with the world and it's varying from one country to another. A lot of countries have high carbon footprint and it's definitely unacceptable. Herewith pie chart explaining our carbon footprint.






Absolutely we can reduce carbon footprint in many ways. Let's have a look at some of them. We can reduce the consumption of energy. In other words, switch the lights off. Another solution is to have a sustainable transport options like electronic cars. Yet another option is to decrease waste by recycling. One more point worthy of mentioning is the diet. We can reduce the consumption of meats.


To sum up, the cumulating of CO2 in the air will still continue to rise if we don't response. A moral principle is one way to reduce it. Helping each other and take care of the easiest thing that can be harmful to our planet.

Work cited


Footprint Calculator." Http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/home/calculator_complete.

"Going Greenhouse Gas Neutral." Http://www.yogaindailylife.org.au/Articles/Environment/Going-Greenhouse-Gas-Neutral.html.


"How Big is your Ecological footprint?" Http://www.myfootprint.org/.

"Re-think your lifestyle." Http://extinct.wwf.org.uk/whatyoucando/rethink.htm."Take Action." Http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/02/car

1 comment:

  1. Congratulations on getting this up so quickly!

    You have time to make a few improvements before this is marked. Although you have fulfilled the task, the writing is weak at paragraph and sentence level. Please add a thesis sentence, topic sentences, and a concluding summary. Also, check for spelling mistakes as well as content. For example, you recommend that we eat other people!

    After you reorganize your paragraphs, you need to put in citations. These should be the first word (in brackets) of the MLA listing of each source.

    Please let a friend read through as well, because it can be very difficult to catch your own mistakes.

    Good luck!

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