Climate Change and Carbon Emissions – Choose Your Path
Did you know a typical human in the United States generates about 6 tons of carbon per year? To offset this amount of carbon, it takes about 30 adult trees to do regular photosynthesis. This exercise is going to look at your decisions and whether you are at, above, or below that average carbon production. These choices and this balance will be the basis for your research project for this course.
To represent your carbon emissions in this exercise, a beaker of liquid carbon dioxide is used. If you can make choices to get below the threshold, you are contributing to the reduction of carbon on the planet and working to slow global climate change and warming. If you make choices that put you above that average, you are generating more carbon than your producers can handle and contributing to climate change.
Instructions
Work through by selecting and reading about all choices presented and then choose your path. Note your choices and their consequences as you work. Answer the following questions:
- What 3 choices did you make in the activity? (location, transportation, diet)
- Why did you make those choices?
- Did you stay below the carbon emissions threshold?
This exercise is the basis for your PowerPoint presentation in the lab portion of Environmental Biology. Each week, you will complete a portion of the research and writing for this presentation. In week 4, you will turn in your completed draft.
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