Carbon Footprint

A carbon footprint is a measure of the impact human activities have on the environment in terms of the amount of green house gases produced, measure in units of carbon dioxide (CO2). The idea of a carbon footprint that a humans are responsible for polluting the earth, because their energy produce has amount of carbon dioxide which release into atmosphere. However, there are two useful websites to measure a carbon footprint from: http://footprint.wwf.org.uk and other www.myfootprint.org. For the first website, my footprint score is 3.59 planets. This score indicates that I'm on the wrong track!! But this indication is reflected to UK average. For the second website, I was even worse which I didn't expect at all, my footprint score is 12.00!! My scores were poor for housing, goods and services (buying too many news things and wasting huge amount of services such as electricity and water).

There are some footprint problems from Housing Footprint, it describes that I'm poor in wasting water and electricity for saving energy. In fact all types of electronic and electricity equipment, parts are very cheap and it available in any shops or market. Also, Food Footprint, it describes that eating a lot and depending on restaurant is not a proper solution and most of our food it imported from different countries. Finally, Carbon Footprint describes the use of personal transportation that contributes to atmospheric pollution that because I have six car (3 mini cars and 3 large cars).

Now to solutions, the good thing that those websites provide solutions to reduce the footprint which encourages me to aware more about myself and teach others for a better life. However, the solution will be from my perspective. At first, I will try to search to find the green electricity which is friend with environment, but for wasting water I will try to control myself to reduce much water. The second problem is to stop eating fast food and buying imported food, replace it by buying local products. In addition, my country have many of factories and farms, so why not to change and trying to buy our local goods. Finally, which need from us to work hard to change our lifestyle by reducing cars, in fact this is not problem, but reduce the number of car is very difficult. Because each one in my house has his own car and we are live away from the city, so I and my brothers decided to share one car to go to work which could may help to reduce our carbon footprint.

In conclusion, the carbon footprint calculator is a good example of getting new information of carbon footprint. I've realized that it is very important for any human being is to change their habits and starting to be aware from new things. Hopefully for every human kind is to encourage and spread this knowledge in order to reduce the carbon footprint and global warming in the near future.