The term “carbon footprint” in my own words means the climatic impression created from the implementation of non renewable energy sources on the planet.
The biggest example of this that springs to mind is the emissions of tail pipe fumes emitted from cars.
“Check out the Danish island of Samso. This island of roughly 4,000 residents has completely wiped away its carbon footprint by using a combination of wind & solar power and biofuel. This all started back in 1998 when the island set out on a project to produce 100% of their energy from renewable energy sources. That’s a big undertaking that some scoffed would take much longer than 10 years, yet they were able to achieve this 10 year goal in 5 years.”
The carbon footprint isnt a massive "Godilla" sooty foot print as illustrated by endless image searches on google. It is the amount of carbon dioxide that we produce as a race which is incidentally damgaing the environement.
As a car lover I admit that unnecessary journeys are often made by most road users on a weekly basis. The government is trying to stop people from using their car as often or indeed altogether by promoting public transport. But in the words of Jeremy Clarkson
“If you want to be boring take the bus!” Not only do buses bore me but you can’t work on them, clean them or have the pride of ownership you get from a car. I understand the catastrophic effect of the fumes produced from vehicles on the ozone layer and in complete contradiction I hate it!
Examples of reducing congestion and pollution from vehicles are existent such as congestion fees in London city center. To consider that there are more people in London than there is in Scotland I believe that certain counties/regions should take more of a responsibility over the amount of damage they cause.
Here is an example of Glasgow’s “Amphibus” an amphibious bus which can travel on land and water in order to reduce congestion and ultimately c02 emissions. This measure is one of the many examples taken to attempt and reduce the carbon footprint.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8506154.stm
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Doug covered this topic in today’s class. He was asking if it was “environmentally responsible for the people of Glasgow who live on both sides of the Clyde to work on the opposite side of their home”. The fact that a certain proportion of the city have to block the Kingston Bridge in order to cross a river in their car when they could just move to the other side.
ReplyDeleteI believe that more sacrifice should be made in order to reduce such waste of resources. Some would say that this could stretch to the extent of never throwing away products or reusing things until they are broken. Even going to the point where you cut out all of the wasteful or damaging activities which you may enjoy or do as a hobby. In the war people had rationed food and certain fruits like bananas weren’t even available as they couldn’t be transported. Should we return to these conditions to save the planets resources? A balance is certainly needed between satisfaction/stimulus and reducing the waste of the planets resources.
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