Greenhouse gases are already too high for humanity to have a manageable future.
Things that we do and buy every day add up to create an enormous amount of carbon and it’s a growing problem that cannot be ignored.
So how much carbon do you make when you boil a kettle? Or send a text message?
What will turning a light off actually do? The answer is, quite a lot – especially if all households around the world do the same.
For an insight on the effects of your own carbon footprint, zoom in on this eye-opening graphic – What’s your carbon footprint?
What are we worrying about?
An average home uses 16,000 kWh each year for heating = 3.9t carbon (using a good gas boiler)
An average car covers 7,400 miles per year = 5.3t carbon (mileage from RAC foundation)
A return flight from London to Hong Kong = 3.4t carbon.
What does this mean?
In short, worry about your choice of car and how you power and heat your home – and never get in an aeroplane!
Planting just a single tree a year will absorb 21.7kg of carbon annually.
Woodlets plants 1.18 million trees a year – that’s a whopping 25,606 tonnes of carbon absorbed from the atmosphere every year.
One kWh of heat from a modern gas boiler adds up to 244g of carbon. Whereas every kWh of Woodlets’ energy saves at least 95% of your carbon.