The carbon footprint is the total amount of the greenhouse gases that are created directly and indirectly by some of the activities that humans support. Basically its the total amount CO2. Your carbon footprint is the sum of all emissions of CO2 (carbon dioxide), which were induced by your activities in a given time frame.

Carbon activities include:

Driving your car. When you drive your car the burns the fuel and when the fuel is being burned or in other words running your car it creates CO2.

When you turn on the heat in your house to warm up that also creates carbon because it burns the oil/gas that is used to warm your house. Even if its just electricity to heat your home it creats CO2.

When you go out and buy food that creates CO2 because you aren't just burning the gas in your car to get there but it took equipment that produces your food whether in cans or not. There are machines that go and collect the food that we all eat and bye at the store.

The carbon footprint causes the global warming. If there is enough carbon in one place like in an episode of Mythbuster's they "barried" Jammie alive, if you were to stuck in that situation or something simular and you can't get Oxygen you can die form it. Carbon dioxide is potentially very hazarous to the body.

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