Environment · Opinions and society
carbon footprint
personal emissions impact
Your carbon footprint is the amount of greenhouse gas caused by your activities.
This vs that
Flying regularly can increase your carbon footprint.
Using renewable energy can reduce it.
Hear it in real life
Why are you buying a second-hand laptop?
It’s cheaper and it lowers my carbon footprint.
Taking the train instead of flying can reduce your carbon footprint.
Which sounds natural?
Psst — which one would you actually say?
'Cut my carbon footprint' is concise and natural in everyday environmental discussions.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: I want to reduce my carbon footprints.
Say: I want to reduce my carbon footprint.
Use the singular possessive form for one person's overall impact.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
carbon footprint (countable noun); reduce/lower/increase your carbon footprint
Phrases to borrow
More for talking about environment.
do our bit for
We all need to do our bit for the environment.
Environment words
Opinions and society · Environment: the words around “carbon footprint”.
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Your turn: say it out loud
I’m trying to cut my carbon footprint.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
carbon footprint
personal emissions impact
“Taking the train instead of flying can reduce your carbon footprint.”
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