Sunday, October 01, 2006

Global footprint

According to this survey I need 3.3 planets to fuel my tasty, mobile and comfortable existence.

I would have thought I was below average in comparison to the rest of the Country in terms of global footprint but apparently not.

Would be interested to see what other people score.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

3.8 Planets which Im thinking is mostly down to my fuel hungry car that I do over 1000 miles a month in alone!!

K8 said...

Ha ha I beat you husband

CATEGORY GLOBAL HECTARES
FOOD 1.8
MOBILITY 0.6
SHELTER 0.7
GOODS/SERVICES 0.7
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 3.8

IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 2.1 PLANETS.

Nick said...

Claire wins!

and k8 and bng, how could you get different scores? mobility is surely the only thing that could be different between you two.

Anonymous said...

CATEGORY GLOBAL HECTARES
FOOD 1.3
MOBILITY 0.2
SHELTER 1.1
GOODS/SERVICES 1
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 3.6

IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 5.3 GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.

IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 2 PLANETS.

Good link mate - but I do very well out of this as we have "vegetarian days", eat a lot of fruit and veg which require no packaging and walk/bus everywhere as we have no car. Unfortunately my "eco-hazard" of a flatmate pushes the fuel usage through the window.

K8 said...

I think the questions are subjective and also I am not very good at maths. Maybe I misread some? Maybe girls answer/interpret questions in a different way to boys? I guess we will never know. We will have to do the quiz together and see who's outcome it more closely matches.

Anonymous said...

Maybe someone secretly likes eating more meat! Don't have to be exact.

CATEGORY GLOBAL HECTARES

FOOD 1

MOBILITY 0.2

SHELTER 0.3

GOODS/SERVICES 0.4

TOTAL FOOTPRINT 1.9

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 1.1 PLANETS.

Hurrah!

Nick said...

i agree, the test is certainly open for critism but it is an interesting excercise.

elenor how did you get mobility down to 0.2?

Anonymous said...

CATEGORY GLOBAL HECTARES
FOOD 1.9
MOBILITY 0.6
SHELTER 1.2
GOODS/SERVICES 1
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 4.7

IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 2.6 PLANETS.

We only need 2.6 planets, although Kieron just pointed out that's not a good score considering we only have one planet, Kieron is off to buy himself a mule, think I might keep his astra.

Anonymous said...

CATEGORY GLOBAL HECTARES

FOOD 1.8
MOBILITY 0.9
SHELTER 0.7
GOODS/SERVICES 0.9
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 4.3
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 2.4 PLANETS.

Anonymous said...

I forgot that I travel to London a couple of times a month ;-)