Every Breath I Take -- December, 2002




Teacher Hints:

  1. Discuss how to estimate the amount of CO2 produced by a person in one day. Next, calculate the daily amount of CO2 produced by the world’s population.

    Hint: refer to the link from Cal Berkeley’s Professor Kegley.

  2. How does this number compare to the total amount of CO2 in our atmosphere?

  3. Discuss whether human respiration is a key contributor to the world’s CO2 level.