This is a new blog covering info and opinions based on the sustainable consumption module from a UEA course in environmental sciences.
Today have been covering carbon footprints. Group activity to calculate Kg of carbon p/year per student using a calculator from Mark Lynas from the ethical thinking column of the Gardian newspaper.
Over the past year i have personally produced about 10,000 Kg of carbon... quite a bit compared to average of bout 6-7k. Pretty interesting results as had not previously thought I was this bad.
Missed first lecture.. oops and just looking over stuff from that now. To follow will be random thoughts with an env theme from the deepest darkest recesses of my mind... might apologise no in advance... maybe not.
Carbon calculator while quite interesting in my opinion has no power to change future carbon emissions unless linked with education programs and government incentives/penalties.
Whilst there are obviosly massive problems with using this quik and basic tool, some target based incentives could be made to work with this.
Today have been covering carbon footprints. Group activity to calculate Kg of carbon p/year per student using a calculator from Mark Lynas from the ethical thinking column of the Gardian newspaper.
Over the past year i have personally produced about 10,000 Kg of carbon... quite a bit compared to average of bout 6-7k. Pretty interesting results as had not previously thought I was this bad.
Missed first lecture.. oops and just looking over stuff from that now. To follow will be random thoughts with an env theme from the deepest darkest recesses of my mind... might apologise no in advance... maybe not.
Carbon calculator while quite interesting in my opinion has no power to change future carbon emissions unless linked with education programs and government incentives/penalties.
Whilst there are obviosly massive problems with using this quik and basic tool, some target based incentives could be made to work with this.
I like the first post, and couldn't agree more that carbon calculators can't be used in isolation of other methods. I guess the big challenge, though, is what other methods should they be used with? Is education going to be enough? Or do we need government regulation and other stronger measures too? I suppose there's maybe another issues here too, which is that if carbon footprinting encourages individuals to look only at their individual emissions, does this militate against more collective approaches to doing something about climate change i.e. do individualised footprints further promote individualism?
ReplyDeleteExcellent cartoon, Matt!
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