The general rule of thumb - the more affluent you are the greater you energy consumption, the greater your carbon footprint. The US consumes largest energy per capita - probably 8-10X of India. A rich person in India consumes 2x of a middle class person and probably 50X of a poor person. Rather than measure carbon footprint it is easy to estimate annual kwh energy in ur house and diblvide byv# residents. Also average miles driven div by # of residents divided bybmiles per gal to get gallons gasoline consumed per person. Give urself 0 gasoline consumed if using public transport.
water usage annual usage div by # persons.
Plastic bags used per year
Get started.
Re: what is your carbon footprint? is it above or below average?
^ good question. Depending on whether source is coal plant nat gas hydroelectric renewables various levels of CO2 equivalent emissions can be computed. For transportation, total gallons consumed can also be converted.
To keep it simple I have laid out energy usage.
It is simple to get stats on energy usage worldwide annually kWh gallons fuel etc.
We know world population. Determine your contribution.
Also if we assume x family units in world calculate consumption of your family unit and compare to Averagey family unit consumptn. This will penalize you if you have large family.
Thanks to Januja for sharing.
Re: what is your carbon footprint? is it above or below average?
Goal was to make us think if we use more than our share of energy. We can look at monthly electricity bill gasoline consumption water consumption. Compare it with the poorest segment who - probably don’t have electricity don’t use car may not have running water.
Will give us different perspective. We are the ones polluting while the poorest are the ones doing least consumption. So when we see pedestrians and folks taking puublic transport in crowded cities ar view them as heroes. And we don’t attach special significance to those who drive monstor vehicles.
yes more carbon means more greenery,
