Does taking your shoes off help reduce carbon footprints?

Question

Does taking your shoes off help reduce carbon footprints?

Answer 1

Only if your shoes are on fire.

Answer 2

Yes if you're a coal miner or a chimney sweeper.

Answer 3

Yeah, carbon footprints are the amount of carbon released to the atmosphere but it is counted on an individual basis. It is the same as the ecological footprint.

The larger your footprint the worst will happen. So, unless you are doing something to reduce your carbon emission, your carbon footprint will not reduced.

And no, it doesn't matter if you take your shoes of or not. It will not affect your carbon footprint.

Answer 4

I took mine off and while carbon dioxide and methane emissions went down, sulfide emissions went up.

Answer 5

No.

The term, carbon footprint, refers to the amount of Carbon dioxide emitted (released) through combustion (burning) of fossil fuels, such as coal, oil, and natural gas.

A carbon footprint is usually expressed as tons of Carbon dioxide emitted in one year.

Answer 6

Only if you never wear shoes at all; when you don't own any, that's one less article that has to be produced, one less item that needs to be transported, etc, etc. But it's a very, very small difference.

I do notice I leave far less imprints when hiking in nature; I leave hardly any prints on the trails, and stepping on plants, those with hiking boots will often crush them or even uproot them, stepping on them barefoot they're more likely to come right back up again. Touch the Earth gently, go barefoot :)