View Full Version : How large is your ecological footprint?
Egg Nog
07-21-2004, 10:01 PM
Check this out. Very interesting site. You'll be amazed. :)
http://www.myfootprint.org/
Share your results, by the way. I got (EDIT) 3.5 global hectares.
sutton4481
07-21-2004, 10:29 PM
I got 18 acres (about 7.3 hectares), probably partly due to the dismal fuel economy I get.
crisis
07-21-2004, 11:23 PM
NASA better get on the job, like real swift. I need another 3 1/2 planets yesterday!
Shiftty
07-22-2004, 12:12 AM
Oh No! :eek: We're all going to Die :D I need Five earths
-This has almoat no truth
I tried it agian with the most ecological thing and it still said I need two Earths :rolleyes:
Egg Nog
07-22-2004, 12:27 AM
I tried it agian with the most ecological thing and it still said I need two Earths :rolleyes:
Really? That seems odd. What did you put in as the most ecological thing?
Mustang
07-22-2004, 12:57 AM
mine is 8 and i would need 4 1/2 earths if everyone was like me :p
whiteballz
07-22-2004, 01:01 AM
same mustang123!
junaman
07-22-2004, 01:04 AM
Well mine is 9 hectares. Thats 5 more planets...
Its mainly because of the food and the goods/services.
junaman
07-22-2004, 01:20 AM
When i tried the most ecological thing I only got 2 hectares, which is 1.1 planets
Egg Nog
07-22-2004, 01:56 AM
I managed to get it down to 0.3 Hectares, but I had to select a different country to do so. Whittled everything down to the bone. If everyone lived like the person I designed, we would only need 1/6 of an Earth :)
By the way, it's pretty scary, eh? It helps you realise how wide the poverty gap is, and how much we really consume in the developed world.
r1ckst4
07-22-2004, 03:49 AM
My result:
CATEGORY GLOBAL HECTARES
FOOD 3.1
MOBILITY 0.2
SHELTER 0.6
GOODS/SERVICES 0.8
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 4.7
IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 8.7 GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.
WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 1.8 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.
IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 2.6 PLANETS
:confused: i'm too stupid to understand wot this whole thing is all about.... :p can anyone explain?
Egg Nog
07-22-2004, 04:35 AM
:confused: i'm too stupid to understand wot this whole thing is all about.... :p can anyone explain?
Your ecological footprint is basically the amount of Earth's resources that you use, and is given as a measure of land area to make things easier to comprehend.
Your footprint analysis measures the amount of land required to support your resource demands and absorb your wastes. It is pretty much an all-encompassing environmental survey, in this case taking hundreds of things into consideration (for example, transportation involves oil, refining oil, transporting oil, etc.).
NoOne
07-22-2004, 05:38 AM
FOOD 3.3
MOBILITY 2.3
SHELTER 1.1
GOODS/SERVICES 3.5
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 10.2
I need 5.7 planets :eek:
UK CARS
07-22-2004, 05:49 AM
Total Footprint 7.3
If Everyone Lived Like You, We Would Need 4.1 Planets. :D
"this is no laughing matter jimbo" ! :mad:
CATEGORY ACRES
FOOD 5.9
MOBILITY 2.7
SHELTER 7.4
GOODS/SERVICES 6.9
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 23
IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 24 ACRES PER PERSON.
WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 4.5 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE ACRES PER PERSON.
IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 5.2 PLANETS.
I'm below average! But, not by much. :(
Coventrysucks
07-22-2004, 06:54 AM
Im a right eco-numpty
Only 3.
I need to cause some more damage to the environment. I might go burn some tyres. :D
baddabang
07-22-2004, 07:00 AM
CATEGORY ACRES
FOOD 5.7
MOBILITY 2.5
SHELTER 3.7
GOODS/SERVICES 5.7
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 18
IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 24 ACRES PER PERSON.
WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 4.5 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE ACRES PER PERSON.
IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 3.9 PLANETS
damn Im fat :D
VtecMini
07-22-2004, 10:21 AM
CATEGORY GLOBAL HECTARES
FOOD 1.8
MOBILITY 1.8
SHELTER 2.2
GOODS/SERVICES 2.3
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 8.1
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 4.5 PLANETS.
I'm pretty sure I'm not all that bad. The fact that I do 500 unavoidable miles per week in my car is probably my downfall there, though according to that thingy it's my best of the lot. Maybe it's cos it's only a 1600 car.
Hmm... I'm gonna go hug some trees and eat some plants from our garden.
werty
07-22-2004, 11:20 AM
my foot print is 21 acres
and if everyone lived liek me we would need 4.7 earths, which is truly amazing cuase i've never heard iof or seen a .7 earth :p
Karrmann
07-22-2004, 11:22 AM
I got a 23 foot print, thank you prius
FC88RE
07-22-2004, 11:29 AM
Well mine's about 7.5'' because it's thin and long!!!...
Anyways!, why do you wanna know the size of my penis for?
byronleehk
07-22-2004, 11:40 AM
FOOD 5.4
MOBILITY 0.7
SHELTER 4.7
GOODS/SERVICES 4.9
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 16
IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 24 ACRES PER PERSON.
WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 4.5 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE ACRES PER PERSON.
IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 3.6 PLANETS.
:rolleyes:
Alcomet
07-22-2004, 02:22 PM
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 2.8
IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 4.5 GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.
IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 1.6 PLANETS [/B]
well... Impressive site no doubt about it!!
.... me thinks it's time to walk more and bring my old bike back to life !!!!!
EDIT- just corrected the results (They were in Portuguese and I copied results in english from another post and edited poorly!)
henk4
07-22-2004, 02:26 PM
just calculated 7, but I presume that spending more than 100 hours per year in airplane far outweighs the size of my house and the economy of my diesel car :) Sensitivity analysis: If I put my flying hours at zero the footprint goes down to 3.9.
Misho
07-22-2004, 02:54 PM
i actually took a full time course on environmental sustainablity and ecological footprints, i cant remember what exactly mine was, but i think we would need around 3 earths if everyone lived like me.
anyways, i have so previous experience on the topic so if u have any questions/concerns i might be able to help.
MrVette83
07-22-2004, 03:00 PM
CATEGORY ACRES
FOOD 5.9
MOBILITY 0.2
SHELTER 7.7
GOODS/SERVICES 5.4
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 19
IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 24 ACRES PER PERSON.
WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 4.5 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE ACRES PER PERSON.
IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 4.3 PLANETS.
So, there ya go.
Egg Nog
07-22-2004, 03:18 PM
I got a 23 foot print, thank you prius
23 is awful! :)
My full results:
FOOD 1.1
MOBILITY 0.3
SHELTER 0.9
GOODS/SERVICES 1.2
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 3.5
IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 8.8 GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.
WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 1.8 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.
IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 1.9 PLANETS.
Egg Nog
07-22-2004, 03:24 PM
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 4.7
IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 4.5 GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.
IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 1.6 PLANETS
How did you manage to get 4.7 hectares and only 1.6 planets?
23 is awful! :)
Well, I think they automatically kick yours up a notch if you live in the US. We're a bunch of eco-ignorant fools, ya know. ;)
Egg Nog
07-22-2004, 03:39 PM
I think once a ton of people have posted here, we can convert them all into the same units and make a list :)
Karrmann's isn't actually as bad as I thought. Canadians have their units displayed in hectares, and Americans have them displayed in acres.
It's the same phenomenon as the "Canadian border chill", where Americans think its extremely cold in Canada when the TV weather graph shows that its 77 degrees in Seattle and only 25 in Vancouver. ;) :)
SlickHolden
07-22-2004, 03:45 PM
Category Global Hectares
Food 2.6
Mobility 0.3
Shelter 0.1
Goods/services 0.3
Total Footprint 3.3
In Comparison, The Average Ecological Footprint In Your Country Is 7.6 Global Hectares Per Person.
Worldwide, There Exist 1.8 Biologically Productive Global Hectares Per Person.
If Everyone Lived Like You, We Would Need 1.8 Planets.
cls12vg30
07-22-2004, 05:55 PM
Heh, I'd need 4.4 planets. I take up 20 acres. Below average for my country. That things a crock if you ask me. Yeah, I run a 3 liter engine and oh, no I have electricity! I also have a gun in my house I wonder what they'd say about that.
Don't talk to me about "productive hectares per person". That's why we keep advancing our technology so that every acre of US farmland is the most productive on earth. Two hundred years ago the US was able to feed itself with about 80% of the population involved in agriculture. One hundred years ago the US was able to feed itself with just under 50% of the population farming. Today, the US feeds itself and exports massive amounts of food with approximately 3% of the population directly involved in agriculture.
I'm not being U.S. - centric here, I'm just using the US as an example and I don't know the figures for the rest of the world. I would imagine the farmlands of Europe have become as ridiculously efficient as those of the US.
SPHFerrari
07-22-2004, 07:41 PM
with my real results, i had 19 acres footprint.
then i tried to drive it up as much as possible and got 133 acres, needing 30 planets.
then i did this:
CATEGORY ACRES
FOOD 1.7
MOBILITY 0
SHELTER 0.5
GOODS/SERVICES 0.2
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 2
IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 24 ACRES PER PERSON.
WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 4.5 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE ACRES PER PERSON.
IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 1.0 PLANETS.
henk4
07-22-2004, 07:48 PM
Today, the US feeds itself and exports massive amounts of food with approximately 3% of the population directly involved in agriculture.
I'm not being U.S. - centric here, I'm just using the US as an example and I don't know the figures for the rest of the world. I would imagine the farmlands of Europe have become as ridiculously efficient as those of the US.
These exports mainly can take place on the basis of massive subsidies to the farmers, effectively blocking the progress in a number of other countries. Hopefully the WTO cotton decision will also have some influence on this situation.