Monday, January 22, 2007

Deeply ashamed

I'm a very bad person. Even though I consider myself socially aware and environmentally conscious, when I checked out my biological footprint I discovered that I am personally using 7.3 hectares of space every day to live:

CATEGORY GLOBAL HECTARES
FOOD 0.7
MOBILITY 1.5
SHELTER 1.5
GOODS/SERVICES 3.6
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 7.3

IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 4.3 GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON. WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 1.8 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.

IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 4.1 PLANETS.

Holy ecological disaster, Batman!

3 comments:

Me said...

FOOD 3.1

MOBILITY 0.7

SHELTER 2.7

GOODS/SERVICES 3.5

TOTAL FOOTPRINT 10

:(

Marissa said...

CATEGORY GLOBAL HECTARES

FOOD 1.1

MOBILITY 0.1

SHELTER 0.3

GOODS/SERVICES 0.6

TOTAL FOOTPRINT 2.1

IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 4.3 GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.
WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 1.8 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.
IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 1.2 PLANETS.

this cannot possibly be right? how big is our flat?

Anonymous said...

CATEGORY GLOBAL HECTARES

FOOD 1.5

MOBILITY 1.1

SHELTER 1

GOODS/SERVICES 1.2

TOTAL FOOTPRINT 4.8



IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 5.3 GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.

WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 1.8 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.




IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 2.7 PLANETS.