Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Ecological Footprint Results

FOOD: 5.4 GLOBAL ACRES
MOBILITY: 2 GLOBAL ACRES
SHELTER: 4 GLOBAL ACRES
GOODS/SERVICES: 5.4 GLOBAL ACRES

TOTAL FOOTPRINT: 17 GLOBAL ACRES
Considering the amount of available usable acreage per person, if everyone lived like me, we would need 3.8 planets.
What I wonder is, if you add up every person on the planet's global acreage, what percentage of global acreage are we using? More than 100%? Is that possible? People are dying of famine in Africa- if we moved them, could we support them? I don't want generalized answers either, if anyone has any detailed information, please share. But I think these are questions to ponder while doing what we can here.

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