A well-developed country such as United States of America has carbon emissions of twenty tons per average American person, which is way higher than a person living in Ethiopia. For instance, to support my lifestyle, it takes twenty-four global acres of the Earth’s productive area and twenty-four tons of carbon emissions. On the other hand, to support lifestyle of an average Ethiopian person it takes less than one ton of carbon emissions. The lifestyle of the Ethiopian citizens is mostly based on agriculture and the main everyday occupations like farming, fishing, herding etc., which don’t even take close to twenty four global acres. The reasons to why an average Americans carbon footprint is so high are because we heavily depend on electricity
