How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint and Fight Climate Change

Before the Flood Student’s Name Institution Affiliation Instructor’s Name Course number Date As evidenced in the Film, every decision has an environmental impact. What Changes will you make in your day-to-day life to reduce your Carbon footprint? How will you keep yourself accountable? The aspect of climate change is intriguing yet the decisions must be made on a global scale. However, our actions in our day-to-day life immensely influence the environment. The levels of carbon footprint increase because of traveling by bus, car, train, or plane, waste material, burning of coal and wood, and household energy. Embracing sustainability in these sectors at home reduces carbon emissions to the atmosphere. Reducing carbon footprint is a choice of sustainability and one can keep accountability by calculating the value of the energy they have used in their day-to-day activities for instance in food, car travel, electrical appliances, and water usage. In ‘Before the Flood’, we saw countless ways our consumption is ruining the environment. What outcomes were most shocking to you? What solutions provided you with the most optimism for the future? Human consumption deliberately influences the environment and the most shocking outcomes disputed in the film are extraction of natural resources, burning of fossil fuels, and deforestation. The shocking malice of these activities is the levels of greenhouse gases such as methane and carbon dioxide emissions that are scattered in the atmosphere that are dangerous for our health. Carbon dioxide contributes to the warming of the atmosphere resulting in global warming which contributes to ozone layer depletion contributing to elevated temperatures and health outcomes such as skin and cancer. The solutions related to planting more trees to absorb carbon dioxide reducing the con