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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