My Carbon Footprint

The massive increase of people around the globe is affecting the earth by consuming energy that leads to release carbon dioxide. What is Carbon footprint? Carbon Footprint is the amount of carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases emitted by us in our daily life. I will report about me, my classmates, and other people from other country carbon footprints.

I looked up for three websites, hero of the UAE, my foot print and WWF carbon foot print calculator to check my carbon footprint. In heroes of the UAE I’ve been asked about my general uses of electricity, food, where do I live, how is my house, cooling, swimming pool, lighting, cooking and a lot of these questions about my life style. Most of the websites have the same categories as food, travel, home and other stuffs (Footprint calculator). Unfortunately my result showed that if everyone lived like me, we will need 2.31 earths!!

I compared my carbon footprint with three of my classmates Basel, Khaleel and Ali. I found that three of us were nearly the same between 2-3 planets needed. I refer that due the almost same life style we live and the same country. Then I compared with other people around the globe. In Europe I found that their carbon footprint was less than mine. Why is that? Their life style is completely different than ours. They walk, use buses than using cars separately. They already have cold weather so they will not use electricity to cool their houses like we do here. I look to the average of plants for the UAE and I found that equals 10.33 planets which mean that we have one of the biggest carbon footprints here (The size of your ecological footprint).

Carbon Footprint is one of the biggest reasons to Global warming. So at least we can reduce releasing CO2 by doing these simple steps every day, which really affects and reduce Carbon Footprint. For example switch lights and TVs that you are not using, waste less by recycling things as papers, magazines and cans. Reduce the need to travel instead of traveling every summer travel every two. Save water which most people do not. Accomplishing these simple things will really help and save many humans and animals lives.



Bibliography

"Carbon Footprint." http://www.heroesoftheuae.ae/en/section/what-can-i-do/calculators-1>.

"Footprint calculator." http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/questionnaires/show/1/1/1.

"Re-think your lifestyle." WWF-UK. http://extinct.wwf.org.uk/whatyoucando/rethink.htm.

"The size of your ecological footprint." http://www.myfootprint.org/en/about_the_quiz/what_it_measures/.

Some reviews about An Inconvenient Truth.

An inconvenient truth had a great success with a purpose to spread the idea of global warming and how dangerous it is. Although of this success some people disagree with Algore or with the idea of this film and Al Gore’s intentions. In this Summary I will talk about the positive and negative reviews.

Negatively reviews about an inconvenient truth were few comparing with the positives. Although one of the reviews found Al Gore good speaker and presenting this movie by his self. It says that this movie does not seem about Global warming as it is suppose to be, but it is about Al Gore . He referred that to the scenes about Aglore’s life during the presentation. In his opinion in this movie Algore has done this movie to show his self more than pointing at global warming (Nash).

On the other side other, most of reviews were positively standing with Al Gore, they think that Al Gore did a great job in his movie specially that he presented it by himself. Moreover in one of the reviews I read, Al Gore was supported for what he has done in this movie to tell people about this fact that will happen, unless people react together, and how Algore referred to over than 100 researchers on his presentation. it concludes that there are no heroes or super stars to save the world, as long people could reach the moon and do many incredible things and it is not impossible to stop global warming(Ebert).

After reading and comparing these two reviews, although Al Gore is not a scientist to warn us about a sciene issue, I think he has done a wonderful movie. As a matter of fact I think that Al gore wants to help the world to stop global warming, open people’s eyes into this issue More than showing his self and let the world know more about him.

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Bibliography:

Ebert, Roger. "An inconvenient truth." Brandonfibbs. 28 Feb. 2008. 2 Apr. 2009 http://brandonfibbs.com/2006/05/24/an-inconvenient-truth/.

Nash, Scott. "An inconvenient truth." Three movie Buffs. 30 Dec. 2006. 2 Apr. 2009 http://www.threemoviebuffs.com/review.php?movieID=inconvenienttruth.