Source 1: When it comes to carbon footprints, location and lifestyle matter 3.
Source 2: The well-heeled leave biggest carbon footprint 6.
Source 3: Carbon footprint of low income households; does addressing fuel poverty conflict with carbon saving? 7.
Source 4: The distribution of UK household CO emissions. 8.
Comparison of sources 8.
Methodology 9.
Variables 10.
Questionnaire 12.
Collecting the data 11.
Calculations 15.
Analysis of Findings 20.
Processing of Findings 21.
Conclusion 21.
References 21.
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Introduction.
On January 15, 2015, the iconic Doomsday Clock has ticket two minutes closer to midnight and now stands at three minutes to midnight, the 'latest' is has been since 1984, the height of the Cold War. The Bulletin of the Atomic Sciences1, look at global issues on a regular basis and calculates the time to Armageddon, citing climate change and a nuclear arms race as extraordinary and undeniable threats to the continued existence of humanity. "Efforts at reducing global emissions of heat-trapping gases have so far been entirely insufficient to prevent unacceptable climate disruption,' said the Bulletin's Richard Somerville. "We all need to respond now, while there is still time.2".
Currently, the world tends to focus on the greenhouse gas emissions of large companies, industry, and energy producers, blaming those for the increase in emissions. However, individual consumers and their lifestyle choices ultimately drive the economic activity of industry, food production, traveling, and manufacturing of good, to name a few. Individual lifestyle and consumption choices create demand and ultimately drive the emissions released by industry, agriculture, transportation, application of land, and energy production. .
We are comparing the CO2 measurement to the person's income because we need to determine which part of society is to be held responsible for the largest amount of CO2 output.
