Footprints 1

The footprints of many people differ. My footprint is different than others. Mine is calculated by power consumption, the foods I eat, and the waste that follows. In a normal day I use coal power to power my house. The lights I use, the heating of my house, the computer I am typing on is also sucking in power. The average day of my life puts smog and the like into the air, from coal use. The foods I eat also cause problems. For one, almost all of the foods that stay in my house, as well as most other homes, has been packaged. Whether that packaging is individual, or a big bag it still gets thrown away and causes more problems. Another problem is that foods that aren't consumed are usually thrown away as well. Many people will throw away their foods and then it goes to the landfiland rots releasing its internal carbon dioxide contaminating more of the air. My family trys to throw out old foods into our backyard so that the wildlife around my house can eat it and keep it from going to waste. Old bread is thrown by the birds. Meat scraps are thrown to the coyotes. Old fruits and vegatables are givin to my iguana. Other food leftovers that cannot be disposed of by the surronding wildlife, like seafood remains, are sadly thrown away to be stuffed into a landfill. Another problem that I cause is that my family and I add lead and other metals to the environment through guns. We will often go target shooting. We will spend some days shooting clay pidgeons and shooting soda cans, bottle caps, or just random stuff around the area. The bullets contain lead and other metals which leak out and poison the surrounding area. The clay pidgeons break, and will sometimes biodegrate, and other times won't. Also the car we use to carry the guns and get to the places we shoot uses up a lot of gas (unfortunitly we only get about 9 miles to the gallon). We have two other cars that we use most of the time and the 9mpg truck is almost never used. The other cars have better gas milage, but still release carbon dioxide (or is it monoxide i can never remember, but I will continue to call it carbon dioxide) into the air, and use up natural resources. Our small jeep is used by my dad to get to his various job sites and runs most of the day. The other car is used for trips, driving into school, getting groceries, ect. Our ditbikes, snowmobiles, and speed boat also use up gas and release carbon dioxide. Odds are good that my footprint and my families footprint is fairly large, but what are we going to do about it? There's really not much that we can do to change that fact. The human race is in decline. We are going to burn out our resources, kill ourselves and many other species while we're at it, but eventually nature will right itself and hopefully another species like us will never evolve on this or any other planet. So lets just hope we are all dead before we run out because thats going to be one horrible horrible place, and we're to blame because of our large impact and mindless onward march to destruction. =)