I just tried out a new online project designed to calculate your personal ecological footprint. Basically since the world has finite renewable and nonrenewable resources in the near future, how much is our personal consumption overshooting the available resources?
They calculate that the world's population is over-consuming at a rate in which we would need another half of the Earth to sustain it.
I took the quiz and had some bad news. First, on the good side, my ecological footprint was slightly less than the national average. Still, apparently we'd need a total of 5.33 Earths if everyone was to consume at my level. The national average is a shocking 6.35 Earths!
They explain some of the methodology and also provide resources on how one could reduce their ecological footprint in the different categories.Try it out at Redefining Progress's Ecological Footprint Quiz.
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