My carbon footprint

The carbon footprint is the amount of GHG emissions you personally are responsible for. I measured my carbon footprint on the website and it was 2.97. http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/

The website shows me that I need above 3 planets to live in, but comparing with other student my rate was low, may be because I don’t eat that much and I don’t like to drive my car as much as my classmates. Ahmed Salem who is one of my classmates measured his carbon footprint and the result was 4.36. I think the difference between him and me is very clear because Ahmed wouldn’t have any problem if he drove his car for a whole day. However, the problem is not in our class only because our country has the highest carbon footprint per head. According to the website the UAE estimated the footprint at 11.9 gha (global hectares) per person. http://archive.gulfnews.com/supplements/abudhabi_2008/more_stories/10200240.html

All in all, we must make a movement to reduce this high amount of our country and that firstly belongs to us. We must change our bad habits exactly in the use of cars, but actually we can’t do anything for the main factors of raising the country footprint’s which are the rapid growth in population and the economy also.

Blog project - Task 4

According to Brandon Fibbs you can see many positive points on this movie. He said that everybody must see this film otherwise he will be asked by his grandchildren to explain why he didn’t. In Brandon Fibbs, review I found some arguments to emphasize that film is very good. The first is talking about the photographic evidence; he described it as “the most shocking thing of all”, and the second is the graphs and charts which are in his point of view enough to convince even the most ardent skeptic. Another argument is the scientific views and research in the Global Warming issue and the number of floods, hurricanes and the range of droughts that we’re seeing all over the world. As a result of all of these arguments, Fibbs converted the global warming from hypothetical theory into a real fact.

In fact, when I read Eric’s review I completely understood what Brandon Fibbs mean by ardent skeptic. But also Eric has his arguments against this movie and he asks for more evidence. The first argument for Eric is that Al Gore has political goals from this lecture more than thinking about the moral issue. Another argument is that photographic evidence might be taken at two different seasons of two different years. The last argument is that the lecture is lacking in references.


In this paragraph I’m going to comment on both reviews from my point of view. I agree with Brandon Fibbs that the film was very good and effective, but Fibbs’s review makes people shocked more than the film itself when he exaggerates some points. For example he said: “within the next decade—we face an apocalyptic future. Once the tipping point is passed, we will begin the slide towards the destruction of most life on this planet” and “If things are even half as bad as Al Gore says they are in An Inconvenient Truth, we are very likely looking at the end of all humankind”. Of course I disagree with that and I’m thinking that in the future I might send my son to Fibbs to say to him: hi Fibbs, I’m one of the humankind and I’m still alive, are you surprised?. However, on the flip-side Eric was complaining and classifying this movie as a political movie, but actually he was thinking about Al Gore himself more than the movie.

http://brandonfibbs.com/2006/05/24/an-inconvenient-truth