Worried about your carbon footprint? Well, that's kind of the point.
According to online carbon footprint calculators I have a higher-than-average carbon footprint for Africa . You can run your own carbon footprint calculation here or even here . My results are unsurprising as a child of an immigrant who occasionally travels via international flights to visit family. Moreover, I commute by car to get to university and work daily. I also own more than five pairs of shoes and occasionally eat meat . While these are all factors that contribute to my own carbon footprint, I want to explore where this kind of calculation came from and whether this is even a good measure of our individual impact on the planet. These are just some of the factors that go into carbon footprint calculations. One of the first questions that these carbon footprint calculators ask is whether you have taken any international flights in the past year. This is because the aviation industry accounts for 2.5% of global carbon emissions. What most of these calculators also offer is a
