Carbon Footprint and Population
Understanding a country's carbon footprint and its population is important, because global warming is a prevalent issue. For one, climate change is negatively affecting Earth by indirectly killing species, and raising water levels. Additionally, it is also decreasing the air quality, promoting vector born diseases, creating extreme weather, decreasing drinking water supplies, and much more. One of the core proposed elements in global warming is the world's population. As the population increases, lots of effects and patterns linked to global warming start to become more prevalent, which suggests a direct relationship between population and global warming. Therefore, understanding and investigating this apparent relationship is important, because global warming threatens to change the world forever and cause lots of irreversible problems. For example, as the world continues to burn through fossil fuels, the carbon emissions created by those fuels start to tear away the ozone layer in the Earth's atmosphere. As the ozone layer starts to disappear, the world is exposed to more radiation from the sun, and the global temperature starts to increase. Once the ozone layer is sufficiently depleted, scientists fear that the damage will be irreversible, and lots of species (potentially humans) will go extinct. Therefore, an important question to answer is: how does population (and other factors surrounding it) influence a country's carbon footprint?