There are many websites that can calculate the carbon footprint via answering questions specially designed to know the amount of earths that can support your current lifestyle. One of the websites I used is www.heroesoftheuae.ae/en. This website showed that my lifestyle is sustainable by 1.7 earths. I checked another website www.footprint.wwf.org.uk/ and I got the result of 3.39 earths. I calculated the average and got 2.545 earths. The results were different because the questions are more accurate in the second website than the first. Both websites have questions split into four categories; food, transport, home and stuff.
To know if my carbon footprint is normal or not I compared it with some of my classmates and the results were interesting. Salem Al Hammadi had the lowest average of 2.13 among us all. The other 3, Waleed, Ali and Mohammed Sadoon had very similar results that ranged between 3.325 and 3.47 earths. I also compared my carbon footprint to my countries which seems to have an average of 9.5 (Carbon Offsets Daily). My carbon footprint average is much lower than the UAE’s footprint. The UAE has the highest carbon footprint in the world compared (Heroes of the UAE).
There are many things we can do to reduce our carbon footprint. We can buy energy-saving electrical equipment such as light bulbs or heaters and save as much water as we can. We can also substitute cars by bus as mean of transportation or package food and use locally produced groceries. If people put enough effort to save energy and reduce the UAE’s carbon footprint, it will definitely work and the footprint will be reduced a lot.
Bibliography:
http://www.heroesoftheuae.ae/en .
Torchbox. "Footprint Calculator." WWF Footprint Calculator. 05 May 2009
http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/ .
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