Loading ...Please tell me more about the footprint and co2 emmition whats the whole idea in sense of how can j put the answer in the blanked fields in option update the profile(technicly) .Pard me if my sppeling is not best j havent used in a while. Thank you in forward
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Hi Mirce - it is an interesting subject. It seems like it is the best measure for each of us to show how we are progressing (or not) in lower-carbon living, with all that implies for the future of our planet. There's an introduction here: http://www.oneclimate.net/getting-started/record-carbon/ |
To quote a writer and singer that specializes in communicating with wee ones (Pete Seeger):
"You see, it's like this. Imagine a see-saw, and on one end of it there's a basket half full of big rocks. And that end is down on the ground. On the other end, there's a basket a quarter full of sand, up in the air. People are standing around putting sand in that basket with teaspoons, and you say, 'Look, how are those few people with teaspoons ever going to fill that basket and tip that scale. The sand is leaking out just as fast as it's going in. Hopeless. Why even try.' But I say, this has been going on for hundreds of years, and there are more people with teaspoons coming all the time, and one day it's going to tip, and everyone will ask, 'How did it happen so fast!'"
I'm inspired for a moment and I think, "Yes! Have teaspoon, will travel! I' can help with climate change.
Mirce, A graphic image of our Carbon Footprint puts us in that frame of mind.
Imagine a child sitting on a bus or in a car that is capable of visualizing what a teaspoon of CO2 looks like...
...headed down the road, maybe picking up lots of other children, stuck in traffic, heater or air condition running perhaps, thinking I could've taken my bike or walked, instead of puffing out teaspoons of CO2.
That's your footprint in a teaspoon...