According to Wikipedia, a carbon footprint can be described as the total spreading caused by means of an individual, event, organization, or product, expressed as carbon dioxide equivalent.
There are a lot of reasons that cause to increase the carbon footprint. Our houses are one of the place where we do some activities and consume something which damage to the Earth by inceasing our carbon footprint. Even the materials we use to build our houses, the size of the house, affects the carbon footprint, also inside the house what we consume increases the carbon footprint. For example, our wastes, using of electricity, using water, heating, etc. affects the ratio of our carbon footprint. What I observe in my personal life and my physical surroundings we consume all things that we have without thinking the future. If we continue to consume like that, we won’t find anything that we need in our life. For example, in my dormitory people don’t care whether they close the tap or not. In this way, people waste the water. Also, when it comes to heating, sometimes the dormitory can be very hot and instead of reducing the heat of heater, they open the window. They do not pay attention to reduce the rate they use. In addition, when some people use coal for heating, carbon dioxide gases are emitted to nature and others use the electricity, which also increases the carbon footprint. These are more common problems about consuming something that increase the carbon footprint. I want to focus on our consuming of the water. We consume water a lot because we use it almost in everywhere but even now there is no water in some lakes due to our excessive water consumption and the number of these lakes is increasing day by day. In addition to this, we also pollute the water that we can use before polluting. For example, we dump waste into the oceans, seas. Even the toxic detergents that we use at home instead of using non-toxic detergents also contaminate water. We also consume the water by polluting it even with the small toxic detergent.
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