Posted on 06/19/2007 1:34:09 PM PDT by Reform Canada
The website is biased.
I answered the questions as similarly as possible, for my real location (over nine earths), and for an african country (three earths).
Bullsh!t
I got 15 planets. You really get dinged for having a house in the country and commuting by plane.
Yeah, if everyone commuted by plane you would need 15 planets to make room for all of 'em! :-)
Must live on ramen noodles and live in a tent.
CATEGORY ACRES
FOOD 6.9
MOBILITY 5.2
SHELTER 6.4
GOODS/SERVICES 10.6
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 29
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 6.6 PLANETS.
Woot!!
Yea but I bet you make up for it in the jealousy factor...
"This simple model offended environmentalists, however. It penalized organic farming, which has low yields, and also encouraged the conversion of original ecosystems to high-yield monoculture crops. When applied to countries, it made Canadians seem very virtuous because of our vast agricultural lands. So Rees with others, and then others without Rees, began churning out new, improved footprint models. When these, too, didn't produce the results they needed they layered biodiversity models over the footprint models in repeated attempts to overcome the continuing shortcomings.
In other words, we didn't like the results so we changed the model to match our ideologies.
CATEGORY ACRES
FOOD 5.4
MOBILITY 7.2
SHELTER 12.8
GOODS/SERVICES 18
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 43
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 9.8 PLANETS.
OK, so let’s get some more planets.
13.9 planets! Yes!!!
Alright dude! Way to Pig Out!
6.4 Planets
I guess I need to eat more cheeseburgers, get a bigger truck and a bigger house, and move father away from work!
It's raining soup out there, and instead of building bowls, the "only one earth" folks want us all to just shrivel up and die.
It's raining soup out there, and instead of building bowls, the "only one earth" folks want us all to just shrivel up and die.
So let’s go find some more planets to live on. Or at least terraform the ones we already know of. What’s the problem here? When your children grow up, you don’t reduce your lifestyle so they can live with you and have more children living with you in your house - they go out and get more houses to live in. We just need more planets.
Ha Ha!!
I need 37 acres ... 8.2 planets!! Woo Hoo!
My evil scheme to create a huge ecological footprint is working ... you’ll not foil me this time, Superman!
Signed,
Lex Luthor
Time to trade the Hummer H3 on a H2 and see if I can bump it up some.. maybe a bigger house..
Please send me a FReepmail to get on or off this Canada ping list.
Lots of air travel and bad gas mileage in my gas-guzzler SUV really helps!
Just wasting the energy the tree-huggers won't waste.
Note: this topic is from 6/19/2007.Thanks Reform Canada.
To ecological-footprint advocates such as Rees, technological improvements do not demonstrate human resourcefulness and adaptability. Rather, they are part of the problem. "We can show that, in fact, in the world's most technological economically efficient countries such as Japan, the United States, West Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, as their technologies have improved, as efficiencies have steadily increased over the last couple of decades, so has per-capita consumption," Rees states. "And therefore, of course, gross consumption and gross waste production are also increasing. I would even argue that this is a result of increased efficiencies."Gosh, it's almost as if world society and the economy isn't an oil painting as the ecotards claim.
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