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The ecological footprint quiz thingy
CATEGORY ACRES
FOOD 3.7
MOBILITY 1.5
SHELTER 1.7
GOODS/SERVICES 2.2
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 9
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 2.1 PLANETS.
Well, actually, there are some things missing from the assessment, which makes me think it's significantly off, but the problem is that I think some of the missing things would make me look better and some would make me look worse, and I don't know how that would balance out if they were all in there.
I think it's unreasonable to expect people in less clement climates to eat as much locally grown food year-round as I do: shbouldn't we be working on less resource-gobbling methods of preservation and distribution?
Since my job is driving an old lady around town, my distance driven is worse than it would be otherwise, but I don't spend as much time in the car alone as I would. I'm unable to use the bus for the things I do but I do walk a lot.
There's no metric for buying used things preferentially. There's no metric for heating/cooling except "what city has weather most like yours?" -- I had to pick San Francisco, which is not bad, but I set the thermostat to 62 degrees all winter and never use A/C. We have water conservation habits born of a five-year drought. Et cetera.
CATEGORY ACRES
FOOD 3.7
MOBILITY 1.5
SHELTER 1.7
GOODS/SERVICES 2.2
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 9
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 2.1 PLANETS.
Well, actually, there are some things missing from the assessment, which makes me think it's significantly off, but the problem is that I think some of the missing things would make me look better and some would make me look worse, and I don't know how that would balance out if they were all in there.
I think it's unreasonable to expect people in less clement climates to eat as much locally grown food year-round as I do: shbouldn't we be working on less resource-gobbling methods of preservation and distribution?
Since my job is driving an old lady around town, my distance driven is worse than it would be otherwise, but I don't spend as much time in the car alone as I would. I'm unable to use the bus for the things I do but I do walk a lot.
There's no metric for buying used things preferentially. There's no metric for heating/cooling except "what city has weather most like yours?" -- I had to pick San Francisco, which is not bad, but I set the thermostat to 62 degrees all winter and never use A/C. We have water conservation habits born of a five-year drought. Et cetera.
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