USA VS COLOMBIA


“FOOT PRINT IN UNITED STATES AND COLOMBIA”

*Luisa Botero
*Paulina Delvalle
*Laura Arcila
*Sofia Zapata

A person during all his life in average will eat 50 tons of food, will buy 8 cars, will generate 40 tons of garbage and for 2.450 newspapers, it will be necessary to use 24 trees. If these numbers are too simple sight impressive, to imagine the impact of a company on the planet must be furthermore big. Also a person without house in United States, which feeds in places that offer food to the helpless people and sleeps in special refuges, equally he is a person in charge of producing 8,5 tons of carbon dioxide per year. The emission rises as it increases the revenue, an example of this is the impact of the greenhouse gas generated by Bill Gates overcomes in approximately 10.000 times the average.


With the introduction that we had previously, we will make the comparison of a specific place in Colombia (Santa Marta) with the United States.

The carbon footprint of the united states will hardly decease in the future and will be slightly higher by 2050 than it is now, according to a new projection from the department of energy. To identify and calculate the carbon footprint it was used a survey extracted directly from the calculator of carbon footprint of the University of California-Berkeley who allows to calculate the tons of CO2 equivalent (tCO2e) contributed by the practices of consume. The carbon footprint was calculated for 2014, including four components: Transport (particular or public vehicle), the used fuel and the crossed distances. Living place, it includes the annual cost of the service of electricity, natural gas, water and the size of the house. Food, it includes the daily quantity of the consume for kinds and groups of food. Shopping, the number of times that the person buys (clothes, technology...) and the number of times that are paid for services (health, education, social...).

The average carbon footprint estimated per capita consumption practices for Santa Marta in 2014 it was 29.95 tCO2e. When comparing this contribution with the one identified in other cities such as Miami Beach with 26.8 tCO2, Kansas City 71, 4 Tco2e and Sacramento 40,70 Tco2e in 2013, which were measured by the same calculator, and that can be compared in the measure in which they have geographical similar conditions or size population, it can be considered down.
Establishing that younger people tend to contribute more CO2. This result can be explained by the higher consumption of sugar drinks, a characteristic similar that was found in the United States with young people.

In conclusion, the size of the carbon footprint that people generate by consumption depends on age, education level, income and economic stratum. These determinant substantial differences between people in a particular territory. In Santa Marta, the carbon footprint for consumption is mainly made up of the purchase of property and services.

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     Also in class we did a carbon footprint test and at  we got this. We think that we are taking care of the planet although we should start to change some things that we do in our daily life, for example transport us everywhere by car,
     instead of this we can use the bicycle. This test permit us to know what habits we have to change to help the planet.

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