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What is Carbon Footprint
Carbon footprint is a representation of the effect human activities have on the climate in terms of the total amount of greenhouse gases produced (measured in units of carbon dioxide). Your carbon footprint is the direct effect your actions and lifestyle have on the environment in terms of carbon dioxide emissions.
The two biggest contributors to your carbon footprint would probably be your travel needs and the use of electricity at home.
All our actions have a direct and indirect impact on climate change. Indirect impact would the distance our food has to travel before it is consumed by us or how far away are the clothes we wear are made.
Direct impact would be the carbon emissions of cars, buses, aeroplanes and our personal electricity needs that generally come from fossil fuel burning power plants.
We have a moral and social responsibility to do something about reducing our own carbon emissions. We need to protect the planet that we expect so much from not just for ourselves but for future generations. Reducing our carbon emissions is important in slowing down climate change. We may even reverse it. Besides stepping up the pressure on governments and big organisations to change their environmental policies and practice, we as individuals can take the necessary actions needed on a personal level. We need to act now.