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CATEGORY / ACRES
FOOD / 3.5
MOBILITY / 1.7
SHELTER / 4
GOODS/SERVICES / 5.2
TOTAL FOOTPRINT / 14
IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 24 ACRES PER PERSON. WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 4.5 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE ACRES PER PERSON.
from here. interesting. and yes, it would be completely perverse of me to take pride that i ( Read more... )
FOOD / 3.5
MOBILITY / 1.7
SHELTER / 4
GOODS/SERVICES / 5.2
TOTAL FOOTPRINT / 14
IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 24 ACRES PER PERSON. WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 4.5 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE ACRES PER PERSON.
from here. interesting. and yes, it would be completely perverse of me to take pride that i ( Read more... )
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most mainstream-accepted ideas about
1. overconsumption and our world in precariosu balance and
2. overpopulation
has a fundamental flaw in logic. it goes like this: there are so many poor people, and they are poor because they're so many, and their poverty is worse because they're so many, and they're more vulnerable to climate change etc because they're poor so obviously it's a worse human tragedy if they're many. but if they use their numbers to socially develop skills and technologies (which is a very natural product of higher density of people, because there is more interaction and exchange of ideas, even if it takes time), then they're a problem again because now they're starting to consume more which accelerates our precipitous fall into even worse climate change and throws us off balance.
basically, the problem is that they exist, because whichever way you turn it they're the main cause of all evils. if the Africans were few and scattered ( ( ... )
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the prevailing way of thinking about environmentalism is thinking about humans taking over the natural world (you can see this throughout the myfootprint.org website) as opposed to destructive ideologies taking over human patterns of life. That, in particular.
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