Example Of Argumentative Essay On Human Footprint

As humans, we tend to not realize the impact we make on this planet in our day to day lives. Our “human footprint” is something we start creating since they day we are born, involving all the materials we use and consume throughout our lifetime. These items we sometimes forget about, such as diapers or random bread items such as hamburger buns. It is not just food item and materials; since I am an adult I have my driver’s license, so that would contribute to my own human footprint. We grow and change, as do our needs so are human footprint grows and changes along with us. The first issue I feel strongly about is the amount of showers you will take over a lifetime. The documentary states each individual person will take approximately 28,433 showers. And the showers use more than 700,000 gallons of water. Now if you think about it showers are important in our daily lives because they make us clean, and presentable. I personally need to take a

Obviously this starts much later then you would with showers, due to the legal age of drinking in countries, but that does not necessarily stop people from drinking before that. To even create beer itself you are making your footprint larger, seeing you not just create the beer, but the bottle and cap and how far it travels over time. There are approximately 1,400 breweries to supply the population with these demands, but we don’t necessarily need beer for our personal fitness. I was never one in high school to party and put myself at risk by drinking with my friends, to keep myself healthy. I believe this will help keep my own footprint smaller, since until age 21 I probably will not find myself out partying and drinking every night like some people. I has something the population use to use for pleasure and parties that now almost any teenager can get their hands on and is becoming out of