Our 'carbon footprint'

[TheCurio]

If we want to cut our emissions in half (well not half, I don't know the actual statistic) we could drive with more than one person in the car. If you're driving on an interstate or whatever with a carpool lane you realise that the majority of cars have only one person in them. There's no way that all of those people are going to different places. Another thing, does every single teenager with a license need a car? They could carpool too.
On top of that, there is public transit. We could ride the bus, that's like a huge carpool.

One thing about China having large CO2 emissions, they have a lot of people living there. They also grow a lot of rice which gives off more tahn 66 million tons of the greenhouse gas methane every year....just thought I'd add that.

[Lyra Black]

Originally Posted by TheCurio

One thing about China having large CO2 emissions, they have a lot of people living there. They also grow a lot of rice which gives off more tahn 66 million tons of the greenhouse gas methane every year....just thought I'd add that.

That's a much smaller amount than what is produced from livestock farts.

As I've already said in this thread, China is 99th on the list of C02 production per capita (I don't know what it is for methane, but I guess it's comparable) because the average family (let alone person) doesn't have a car, doesn't have air conditioning and is more likely to buy local. There isn't a lot the average Chinese person can do do reduce his or her carbon footprint. In contrast, most people in the West can do quite a bit.

[TheCurio]

Originally Posted by Lyra Black

That's a much smaller amount than what is produced from livestock farts.

As I've already said in this thread, China is 99th on the list of C02 production per capita (I don't know what it is for methane, but I guess it's comparable) because the average family (let alone person) doesn't have a car, doesn't have air conditioning and is more likely to buy local. There isn't a lot the average Chinese person can do do reduce his or her carbon footprint. In contrast, most people in the West can do quite a bit.

Oh yeah, I know, I'm just enforcing that you can't blame China. I apparently didn't do it too well, though.



Over the last 150 years the levels of some of the most important greenhouse gasses have raised by 25% and during the past 20 years 75% of the CO2 emissions were from burning fossil fuels. There is our reason right there. If we want to cut down on CO2, carpool and the like. We really need to get the get the government behind this whole issue and endorse plans for better fuel sources.

[Alastor]

Kindly continue in our brand new general environment thread.
The Environment

I'll close this to avoid having the same discussion running parallel in several threads.