In Canada, supporting your lifestyle requires 4.1 earths. Your daily decisions require the support of 2 earths.
Supporting the average person's life in Canada requires 4.2 earths.
The daily decisions of the average person in Canada require 2.1 earths.
Tonnes of CO2 / year
YOU
Transportation:
0.1
3.1
What you eat:
2.5
1.7
Home and School:
1.5
1.4
What you use:
1.2
1.1
What you throw away:
0.6
0.9
Carbon Footprint:
5.9
8.2-average canadian footprint CARBON: Carbon dioxide is the gas that causes global warming. It makes the Earth hot the same way a car gets hot when it’s in the sun. We put carbon dioxide into the atmosphere with almost everything we do, including driving and using electricity. We’re going to have to be much more careful about carbon dioxide, or else the Earth will become too warm.
Hectares / year
YOU
Transportation:
0.1
0.1
What you eat:
1.7
1.7
Home and School:
0.1
0.1
What you use:
0
0
What you throw away:
0
0
Land Footprint:
1.9
1.9
LAND: Everybody needs land, and there are lots of people on the planet. We use land for things like growing food, building houses, planting trees, and burying our garbage. This means that if we are going to share it fairly, each of us will only get so much. If we take more, that means we’re taking it away from someone else.
Trees / year
YOU
Transportation:
0
0
What you eat:
0
1.6
Home and School:
0.1
0.1
What you use:
2.2
1.6
What you throw away:
0
0
Tree Footprint:
2.3
3.3
TREES: Trees are very helpful to the Earth. They soak up carbon dioxide and they give us oxygen, which we need to breathe. Forests are also homes for many animals and birds, and they help make our water clean.
Cubic meters / year
YOU
Transportation:
0
0
What you eat:
1534.4
1238.4
Home and School:
89.4
279.1
What you use:
25.6
31.1
What you throw away:
18.3
66.3
Water Footprint:
1667.7
1614.9
WATER: Water is very precious. We need it to drink and to grow our food, and many, many other things. We can’t live without clean water, so it is very important that we are very careful with it and that we don’t waste it.
The daily decisions of the average person in Canada require 2.1 earths.
Tonnes of CO2 / year
CARBON: Carbon dioxide is the gas that causes global warming. It makes the Earth hot the same way a car gets hot when it’s in the sun. We put carbon dioxide into the atmosphere with almost everything we do, including driving and using electricity. We’re going to have to be much more careful about carbon dioxide, or else the Earth will become too warm.
Hectares / year
Trees / year
Cubic meters / year