If you want to lessen your impact on the planet, continue reading to learn how you can shrink your carbon footprint. Our Carbon Footprint Calculator leads users here after they get their result and want to learn ways to decrease their impact on the planet.
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We’re already seeing extreme weather events and hotter temperatures. The latest climate report from the United Nations shows that global warming is accelerating rapidly. We’re likely to hit a metric climate scientists have been warning about in 2029!
The warming rate is currently 1.39 °C and scientists started sounding the alarm years ago—warning that we needed to make changes in order to decrease it before it reached 1.5 °C.
At the current rate of acceleration, they predict we’ll now reach 1.5 °C as soon as 2029.
What makes this news even more worrisome is the fact that the Trump administration rolled back all of President Biden’s climate policies and stopped our transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
He’s even working on leasing protected land to oil and gas companies.
If you want to know how big your personal carbon footprint is, use our Carbon Footprint Calculator. It only takes a few seconds to get your result.
How to Shrink Your Carbon Footprint

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