Do you know how much you really contribute to pollution?
By Aussies2007
@Aussies2007 (5336)
Australia
May 8, 2007 5:45am CST
I did find those interesting facts at
http://www.carbonneutralnewcastle.com/calculator/step1.php
If your electricity bill is around $250 a quarter
You are emitting 2.5 tons of CO2 per year
If you take a plane to go from Australia to the UK...
You are emitting 2 tons of CO2
This is for each passenger... not for the plane.
If you drive 100 kilometres per week
You are emitting 1 ton of CO2 per year.
For those people thinking that recycling will do it... think again.
By far... the biggest culprits are the three above... and we should work hard at reducing our consumption.
3 responses
@mohit1123 (564)
• India
8 May 07
Thanks but any facts like these are of no use. Since its human who wants its survival everything else survived before human existed in the same environment.
@Aussies2007 (5336)
• Australia
8 May 07
You want to explain this again please?
We have only generated this sort of pollution in the last 50 years... when it became fashionable for everyone to have a car and for everyone to jump on a plane to have an holiday overseas.
Humans prior to this were living in a relatively clean environment. Furthermore... there were only 3 billions of them... instead of the 6.5 billions today. So it is a double whammer.
@mohit1123 (564)
• India
8 May 07
I meant when life started and developed there were volcano's and all kind of pollution since oxygen was building up. All animals and plants survived. If the same thing happens now. Like loads of CO2. That is harmful to humans mostly. OK some kind of plants wont survive but many would thrive in that environment. Animals many can survive. BUT since HUMANS havent evolved a great deal to protect themself. That is why is such a big issue.
@Aussies2007 (5336)
• Australia
14 May 07
You cannot protect yourself from pollution... nor can you protect yourself from nature.
But the main problem here is not so much the effect of pollution on humans... but its effect on nature.
Humanity relies on nature for its survival. When our pollution is altering nature... we experience some climat change and some violent natural disasters which will kill us all.
It is true that our planet has experienced some dramatic violent changes in the prehistoric era. But those were natural. There is no excuse for creating a man made disaster... not if we want to survive.
@kathy77 (7485)
• Australia
8 May 07
Wow no I did not know that this was the amount of pollution that I would be polluting to our enviroment but when you say it like this it is no wonder that we have to find other measures of reducting this amount of pollution. Well luckily that I do not do many of these things and even my electricity bill is not that big it is normally around the $150.00 a quarter.
