What is your footprint?

As the carbon footprint grows with each passing day we can help reverse this pattern. Are you ready for the challenge?

What is a carbon footprint?

Carbon footprint is not really a footprint. It has nothing to do with your feet.

It’s what you leave behind when you aren’t listening to what the earth is saying. It’s like when you walk home after playing outside and leave muddy footprints around. Despite your mother telling you not to.

It is, when you don’t switch off the fans in your room and walk away while they're all running. They motor on, unable to switch themselves off.

Or don’t use lights that save energy. They burn angrily through your electricity bills!

Or don’t turn off the tap when you brush your teeth. And let the water run. The water pools into a pond, lake, river and then, a sea of waste water that could have helped millions of others. If only you had turned off that tap.

Or don’t throw away plastic without recycling, and it piles up like a mountain in a remote corner of the world.

Mountains of trash as tall and mighty as the Himalayas, with nowhere to go

Or take the car to school instead of a bus, where 50 cars carrying one child each release more harmful gases than one bus that carries all 50. And what about all that noise from the honking, when those 50 cars get caught in a traffic jam?

They leave a permanent mark on the planet.

The more harmful toxins released into the air, the bigger your footprint.

But, stop.

You can make it better. Just change all the don’ts to dos. And watch your carbon footprint grow smaller and smaller.

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