Carbon Footprint Report

My Carbon Footprint Report – Blog Project Task 5


Carbon footprint is the total of greenhouse gas emissions that caused by one person from what he or she consumes of food, electricity, housing and transportation. Measuring a footprint doesn’t actually mean that one have to put his or her foot on a device to measure it, but its just some of direct questions that one have to answer in order to get the measurement of the carbon footprint. There are several websites that can measure the carbon footprint and I went to a site called Footprint, after answering all of the questions my foot print turned out that I live as if we have 2.23 planets! Which means that for each person like me needs 2.23 another earths to sustain the way of my living style.

After comparing my footprint with some of my class mates the lowest was 2.04 planets and the highest was 4.12 planets. The UAE’s carbon footprint is 4.5 the number of planets needed to sustain the earth’s population if every country had the same ecological footprint as the UAE according to the website (Time out Abu Dhabi).

There are various ways to reduce the amount of consumption of the earth’s sources or reduce the harm one person can cause like using more clean ways of transportation by walking or using a bike to go for a small errands to the market instead of the car. Also in the house one can use energy saving features lights or Choose energy efficient appliances. For food you can at least plant a garden of your own or choose food with less packaging to reduce waste and for housing use biodegradable, non-toxic cleaning products. Everyone in the world are trying their best to reduce the carbon emissions anyway possible and the UAE too is participating in this cause so should we as UAE citizens (Reduce Your Footprint).


Bibliography

"Footprint Calculator." Footprint. World Wide Fund of Nature. 16 Apr. 2009 http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/ Green Dreams." Time Out Abu Dhabi. 16 Apr. 2009 http://www.timeoutabudhabi.com/ "Reduce Your Footprint." My footprint. Redefining Progress - The Nature of Economics. 16 Apr. 2009 http://www.myfootprint.org/en/take_action/reduce_your_footprint

Inconvenient truth reviews

Inconvenient truth reviews


The movie inconvenient truth by Al Gore deals about the topic of global warming. Al Gore chooses an example of a hot topic of general interest because it’s important and interesting. I will describe two reviews of the movie, two positives and one negative.

An author called Niffiwan from Canada – Toronto, thinks this movie is a good film, but there are some problems. In his opinion he thinks it’s a good movie for a teacher to show and educate his students about global warming, and for the people who just heard about global warming and want to see it in reality. But the problem came in the unnoticeable period when Al Gore changed the subject and talked about himself. The author said that he came to watch the movie about global warming not about Al Gore losing the election and that what made him disappointed (Niffiwan).

One other author thinks the film should never have been made. Because he thinks its all about the job of political leaders and policymakers to protect against possible future calamities, the think that made the author didn’t like the movie is because Mr. Al Gore didn’t take the full responsibility of the movie and changed the subject to his political past and his elections. That may put some viewers off, the glimpses into Gore's own childhood are unnecessary distractions (Scott).

In my opinion I think this movie is important but it’s so boring and long, Al Gore changed the global warming subject to his lost in the election and it became a political subject.



Bibliography:

Scott, A. O. "Warning of Calamities and Hoping for a Change in 'An Inconvenient Truth'" The New York Times. 24 May 2006. New York Times. 8 Apr. 2009 .


Niffiwan. "A Nature Hike Through the Book of Revelations." An Inconvenient Truth. World Independent Film. 8 Apr. 2009 .