
Carbon footprint is the amount of the greenhouse gases that produced by human, directly or indirectly, while he’s doing his normal activates in life. It’s measured by how many planets (Earths) could those activates pollute.
I used two sites to measure my carbon footprint; they ask some questions about four important things in our life; food, travel, home and stuff. And all of them are consuming energy (Footprint; My Footprint).
The main problem that the most of my classmates got a very high rank, and the average is about 3 planets each, I got the highest rank 5.9, and I’m not proud of it at all. UAE has got the highest rank in the world even more than US, UK and India. And our class average explains it.
What UAE is doing now is a very nice thing and it shows how the country is positive and serious about this problem. I think people in the UAE should be aware of this problem, because someone careless like me doesn’t realize what the world is facing will not know if nobody told him.
And people that are so addict to meat should be healthier and being balanced. Recycling is word that everybody in UAE knows it but doesn’t do it, because the country instead of recycling they are burning which means more pollution. The last thing and most important thing is the transportation, the percentage of cars is very high comparing to people and the percentage of the cars number’s increasing every year is very high too. And in my opinion the people should cooperate with the country by using the general transportation because it’s better for traffic and environment, and they can use their own transportation just in emergency.
In my opinion a country like UAE, a big producer of greenhouse gases should be responsible at least in the area where we are located, and be careful about what they are doing in future.
I used two sites to measure my carbon footprint; they ask some questions about four important things in our life; food, travel, home and stuff. And all of them are consuming energy (Footprint; My Footprint).
The main problem that the most of my classmates got a very high rank, and the average is about 3 planets each, I got the highest rank 5.9, and I’m not proud of it at all. UAE has got the highest rank in the world even more than US, UK and India. And our class average explains it.
What UAE is doing now is a very nice thing and it shows how the country is positive and serious about this problem. I think people in the UAE should be aware of this problem, because someone careless like me doesn’t realize what the world is facing will not know if nobody told him.
And people that are so addict to meat should be healthier and being balanced. Recycling is word that everybody in UAE knows it but doesn’t do it, because the country instead of recycling they are burning which means more pollution. The last thing and most important thing is the transportation, the percentage of cars is very high comparing to people and the percentage of the cars number’s increasing every year is very high too. And in my opinion the people should cooperate with the country by using the general transportation because it’s better for traffic and environment, and they can use their own transportation just in emergency.

In my opinion a country like UAE, a big producer of greenhouse gases should be responsible at least in the area where we are located, and be careful about what they are doing in future.
Bibliography:
"Footprint Calculator." Stockholm Environment Institute. 9 Apr. 2009.
Ecological Footprint Quiz by Redefining Progress. Kinga Dow Productions, Inc. 9 Apr. 2009.
"Footprint Calculator." Stockholm Environment Institute. 9 Apr. 2009
Ecological Footprint Quiz by Redefining Progress. Kinga Dow Productions, Inc. 9 Apr. 2009
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