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現在環保意識抬頭，什麼都和碳足跡扯上關係。

At this environment-conscious society, everything seems to have a close relationship with carbon footprint.

別以為我們不開車、不燒柴就可以和碳的排放撇清關係！一個麥當勞的漢堡，都含有很高量的碳足跡喔! 怎麼說呢？因為夾在漢堡裏的肉，可能是從美國以飛機運送過來的；裡頭肉上的洋蔥，是從宜蘭坐大卡車來的；買漢堡所送的玩具，則是中國製造後海運過來的。當您把背後這些製造和運送過程所產生的碳全都相加，最後就得出一個漢堡的碳足跡。在國外有研究發現，一個漢堡的碳足跡，約為3.1公斤 的二氧化碳。很可怕喔!

Do not consider that we can clarify our relationships with carbon emission as long as we avoid driving cars or burning logs. Only one hamburger we eat from McDonald may consist of very high level of carbon footprint. Why is that? As we know that a piece of ground meat in the hamburger might be transported from the U.S. by air; the onion in the meat might be sent from Yilan by trucks; the complimentary toys together with the burger might be manufactured and then shipped from mainland China . After summing up all the carbon dioxides created from the manufacturing process to the shipment of a hamburger, you may figure out the amount of its carbon footprint. A foreign research has it that the carbon footprint one hamburger holds may averagely amounts to 3.1 kilo. That’s really incredible!

** ~ has it that是「根據~」的用法，相當於according to~。這種用法很常出現在寫作中，比如說：Legend has it that~ 傳說中…、Report has it that~ 據報導…

今天上臉書時有個同事問到，平均一個長班飛行中，每位乘客所要分擔的碳排放量是多少？哇靠~~我仔細算了一下，比如一趟從香港到美國的長班，每人要分擔一點五公頓到兩公頓飛機所排放的碳耶！也就是說一架兩百多個人的空巴一趟長班就得排放出五百多公頓的碳。而平均一個人的碳足跡要 一點五公頃 到 兩公頃 ，也就是一萬五千到 兩萬平方公尺 的雨林利用「一年」的時間將它消耗掉。哇哩~~一天有那麼多的飛機飛長班，那不就是二氧化碳滿天飛了！難怪我們的臭氧會破洞。  

Today, one of my colleagues posted a public question on Facebook. He asked that in average, how much carbon footprint, when hypothetically shared by every passenger, belongs to one member in the airplane during a long-haul flight? Holy Cow! After my careful calculation, every member in a flight from Hong Kong to the States, for example, shall share 1.5 to 2 tons of carbon dioxide emitted from the aircraft. That is to say, an Airbus accommodating more than 200 passengers will create over 500 tons of the carbon emission when flying long-haul. Moreover, the carbon footprint for every passenger from such flight would not be entirely consumed by averagely 1.5 to 2 hectares, equal to 15,000 to 20,000 meter square, of rainforest until a year later. My! There are so many long-haul flights in a day. Does this mean carbon dioxide is everywhere in the sky? No wonder there are holes found on the Ozone layers.

**美語的感嘆詞五花八門，Holy Cow我想大家應該不常聽過吧？但它卻出現在很多影集或電影裡頭。它的意思就是我們中文口語所用的：哇，天哪的意思。其它類似的用法有：Wow、My God、Holy Shit/Crap等。

所以，還是少搭飛機為妙。那~~我是不是也是地球滅亡的罪魁禍首之一？唉！這是我的工作，別想太多，做好機上服務要緊，平時就盡量減少我們的碳足跡，並祈禱未來會發明不會有碳排放的能源喔！

In light of this, we ought to cut back on our times of flying via airplane. Well, as a flight attendant, am I also the one to blame for putting an end to the Planet? Oh~ this is my job after all. I should not think too much and need to focus on doing a good service in-flight. In our daily lives, we have to make every effort to reduce our carbon footprint while keeping praying any carbon-fee fuels or energy sources to be invented in the near future.

說文解字
Key Words

1). 名詞-conscious：有~意識/概念的。比如：environment-conscious：有環保意識/概念的、health-conscious：有健康意識/概念的。

2). carbon footprint：碳足跡

3). A clarify A’s relationship with B：A與B劃清界線、撇清關係

4). dmission：排放、散發

5). to consist of：包含 (=contain = be made up of = cover = embrace = comprise = involve等)

6). ground meat：漢堡裡頭夾的那片漢堡肉。有時光用hamburger這個字也可以指漢堡肉片的意思喔！

7). complimentary：免費的 (=fee = give-away)

8). to sum up：加總

9). to figure out：想出~、計算出~

10). long-haul：長途的

11). carbon dioxide：二氧化碳

12). to accommodate：容納、提供膳宿

13). ozone layer：臭氧層

14). to cut back on：減少 (=reduce)

15). to put an end to~：殺死~、終結~、毀滅~

16). to make every effort to~：盡力~ (=do one’s utmost to~ = try one’s best to~ = go all out to~ = spare no effort to~)