Kabonfootprint or carbon footprint?
So what exactly the carbon footprint in comparison with kabonfootprint? Even google can be fool by this word where it suggest the searcher to enter carbon footprint instead of this word. We have to be clear about this two words in order to understand and distinguish between them. By under this terminology, it will give us some indication on what is the actual meaning of carbon footprint against the other ones.
Carbon footprint is unit measurements that the scientist is using in order to measure the impact of the carbon, it reaction, towards the environment. When we refer to environment, the scientist will refer to any activities that give the implications and reaction the situation surrounding us such as the climate change. To be specific, those group who are study and focusing on the carbon footprint explain that this has something to do with the greenhouses effect that you, me and others people is doing where we release the greenhouse gases. Activity that contribute to the greenhouses gases release such as burning fossils fuels in transportation and it was measured in units of tonnes or kg of the carbon dioxide.
This carbon footprint can be group and classified as two categories which is primary and secondary footprint. The brief of this info is summaries below.
1. Primary Footprint
As the main category of this Carbon Footprint, this class will measure the direct emissions of CO2 in relation to the burning process from fossil fuel and others business activity that use domestic energy consumption. The car that you and me is driving is one of the major contributor for this class. Since it was caused by you and me, we can consider this primary class is under our control. What it means is that if you, me and other people in the world do not driving our car anymore, this class should be under control to 0. Can that be happen? Not at this moment i guess.
2. Secondary footprint
This class is more focus on the environmental effect by the CO2 emission with the influence by the product that we use, This is hard to control because a lot of product that produce this carbon is become necessity to us. The concept is very simple, the more you use this product, the more effect to the environment will be.
Below is the components of the carbon footprint in the developing country.
1. Public services-12%
2. Gas and Oil related - 15%
3. Electricity - 12%
4. Transportation - 13%
5. Flight - 6%
7. Food and Drink - 5%
8.Clothes - 4%
9. Car Manufacturing - 7%
10. Buildings and furnishings - 9%
11. Recreation and Leisure - 14%
12. Financial Services - 3%
Hope this information can give you some idea about the meaning of carbon footprint.
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August 23rd, 2008 at 10:41 am
[...] Kabonfootprint could be referring to something big and huge in term of size. Nobody will say that is wrong or right because there is no actuall meaning of this word. However the word of kabon some how portray some animal. Could it be bigfoot? or Monkey or any others creature in the world is yet to be found. There is no evidence to prove the existence of this animal. What we can do it to make some wild guess of animal or creature that may leave their footprint. [...]
August 23rd, 2008 at 8:30 pm
[...] makes this process to be called as kabonfootprint is because of the name of the equipment to map the footprint. There is no name so far for that [...]