Carbon Footprint Awareness Is Important
Many of us cruise through our daily lives completely oblivious to such things as a carbon footprint. The impact we are having to the growing problem of greenhouse gases adds to the whole global warming crisis. Hardly surprising really, with the many distractions that take place in our lives we take for granted the impression we are leaving on the world, just by living.
I’ll give you a simple personal example of how my family takes energy use for granted. In our house we have multiple digital clocks and they all run 24 hours a day, one in each room – the microwave, the conventional oven, the CD player, the stereo and in each bedroom all has a clock and each one is sucking up passive energy we could be saving, and we don’t give it a thought. We don’t seem to mind wasting resources and assume it as one of the advantages of living in a modern society. Some people might be a little bit amazed if they were to find out exactly the level of carbon emissions they are producing per year, not to mention an indication of the cost and how simple it might be to save a few bucks and the environment at the same time.
If You Don’t Know It, You Can’t Change It
I like that sentence, it neatly sums up a whole range of human instincts and precisely describes one of the roadblocks in front of those trying to educate people on the importance of reducing our carbon footprint. It’s only when someone is shown the consequence for the actions of their daily lives that they can begin to grasp the idea that there is a need for change.
It’s not until you’re told that running your car produces around 2 ½ tonnes of carbon dioxide per year that you begin to realise that this could be a problem. The goal is to lower the number for next year. Suddenly you have a goal – a quantifiable goal – that you can set for yourself and aim for with real purpose. Failing to get a definite number with regard to your carbon footprint means that you will be guessing about the amount of carbon dioxide your produce. Trying to produce less in the future would be next to impossible to gauge.
The fact that we each stand to get a direct benefit in terms of cost to reducing our carbon footprint should have people more than a little interested.The cost benefit in question is an actual dollar saving! The word will continue to leak out while, hopefully, carbon dioxide doesn’t.
