Carbon Footprint

There are many ways to measure the human impact in the environment. One way is to measure it carbon footprint. In this essay I will give the meaning of a carbon footprint, how to measure it and compare my footprint with other of my friends and suggest how to reduce it.

First, what the meaning of a carbon footprint? Most people don’t know the meaning of footprint. A carbon footprint is the measure of the effect we have on the climate and the role we play in it due to the CO2 we produce with knowledge and without knowledge. People produce tons of CO2 in their lifestyle routine such as burning fossil fuels, using electricity and cooling.

There are many ways to measure your footprint one way is to enter these websites http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/ and http://www.myfootprint.org/. And this is what I did, I entered these websites and they asked some questions about what I do in my daily routine. And what I did is I calculate my footprint which was an average 2.8 earths, and I compared with my friends Hadi with 1.68, Ahmed with 3.5, Mohammed with 2.5 and Abdulaziz with 2.75. I have a 2.8 because I live in a villa and I use a lot of electricity. My friend Ahmed has the top number of planet because he uses a lot of patrol for his car because he lives far away.

We can reduce our footprint by using less electricity because electricity uses al lot of fossil fuels. Another way is to reduce the use of our cars.