Our future aims are to educate schools and colleges in India and other developing countries on how to manage and reduce waste.
Footprints are a mark of where you have been, but ones that you can see are not the only ways to tell where you have left a mark. You leave an invisible footprint with most everything that you do. So if it is invisible, how do we know what mark we leave? It is a car-bon footprint that is the measurement of how much carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are released by our actions. So why is this fact important to know? This is an important question for us to wonder about and find an answer to.
Carbon footprint calculations
There are several carbon footprint calculators available on the web. I like the one offered by an English company, Carbon Footprint Ltd. (www.carbonfootprint.com), because it is detailed yet divides contributions into logical categories and because it allows students to create and store different scenarios. The calculator uses the methodology outlined in the British government’s guidelines for mandatory measuring and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions (Department for Environment, Food and
Firms responsibility
1) How do firms adjust the supplier selection process when sustainability is a key consideration? and
2) What factors affect the transfer of sustainability skills between the manufacturer and its suppliers?
Addressing Climate Change
We are still in the very early stages of addressing this problem, and most of us are still confused as to how to react, at either a private or public level; but a range of measures have been suggested – some of them extreme, such as tinkering with the composition of the Earth’s biosphere or making air travel, and air freight, prohibitively only seasonally available products. Disengaging ourselves from both mass tourism and the consumption of exotic or locally out-of-season food will be no easy task; the West is seriously addicted to both, which are now firmly engrained into our lifestyle, for all the feelings of guilt they can induce in many of us on occasion. It may be a pleasant experience to have products like asparagus and strawberries on our tables in December and January in northern Europe, but they come at a carbon cost that has to be acknowledged; baby vegetables are emission-loaded.
Carbon Truth
If we are to survive in something recognizably like our current form, then it will also be absolutely necessary for governments to be truthful about the carbon emission situation – and for there to be means of checking that they are doing so, ideally by some supranational body such as the EU or the UN. The IPCC should be given more power to insist on targets being met and procedures to monitor those targets; following their recommendations should not be left to national whim, nor to the devious tricks that governments are only too capable of playing with data. There is a very real danger that governments, as is their wont with future elections in mind, will tell the public whatever it is that casts them in a good light, and from now on that is going to mean recording reductions in national carbon emission totals – as a result of government policy and efficiency, we shall of course be told. For those who have signed up for Kyoto this would seem to be a test of their political credibility, but governments can be very creative with it.
Statistics can be manipulated to political advantage, therefore, and a recent event in the UK provides yet another instructive example of why we have to be on our guard. In spring 2008 the British press reported that the country’s National Audit Office was challenging the government’s figures that the UK had achieved a 16.4 per cent cut in carbon emissions since 1990. According to the government the country had released 656 tonnes of CO2into the atmosphere in 2005, but it transpired that there were in fact two official sets of records being kept on carbon emissions, and that the other one, from the Office of National Statistics, showed a significantly higher total of 733 tonnes released that year.
Reducing Carbon footprint
How great an impact the latter would have on the footprint at large is debatable – which is not an argument for discontinuing the practice, as every little helps, especially if it promotes an increased awareness of what is at stake, as it seems to be doing. What would be really significant, however, is a change in our use of transport. If we could manage to cut down dramatically on car use and air and sea travel – the latter is now thought to be responsible for twice as many emissions as air travel, overturning earlier notions as to its relative cleanness – there would be a large reduction in our footprint. But that would require a principled rejection of personal car travel and overseas tourism by individuals that would be hard to engineer – never mind to monitor on a systematic basis. The arguments for and against such a rejection, where self-interest comes into open collision with the public good (differends in action yet again), will now be analysed, as will the validity of the radical ecological call for a lower globa
By Nick Hunter. 32 pp. Gareth Stevens Publishing. New York. 2014. ISBN: 9781433995521.
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