Monday, July 9, 2012

If everyone lived like me we would need 6.28 Planet Earth's to provide enough resources. My ecological footprint broke down from largest to smallest, food, carbon, services and goods, and then shelter. To support my lifestyle it takes 243.55 global acres of the Earth's productive area. To reduce my footprint I could reduce the amount of animal products I eat by half. I could purchase products that use less packaging or look to see if it was made by recycled material. Just by doing those 2 things I can reduce my footprint from 6.28 Earth's to 5.6. If everyone lived with a 4.6 eco footprint it would take about 21.5 global acres of the Earth's productive area to support that lifestyle. According to the Data and Results table on this website, the average American's eco footprint is getting greater and greater every year. This shows that we are not getting better at saving our Earth, we are getting worse. This website was very interesting and I can see how the questions they asked us really are the core of why our eco footprints are so large and those are the things we need to change to make the difference to our Earth.

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