Sunday, October 21, 2007

World Takeover

HERE ARE YOUR FOOTPRINT RESULTS:

CATEGORY GLOBAL ACRES
FOOD 4.2
MOBILITY 0.5
SHELTER 5.2
GOODS/SERVICES 4
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 14


IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 24 GLOBAL ACRES PER PERSON.

WORLDWIDE, THERE EXISTS 4.5 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE GLOBAL ACRES PER PERSON.

IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 3.1 PLANETS.

Before taking this quiz, I honestly thought that I wasn't very wasteful of selfish. After seeing these results, I am kind of upset with myself. I understand that it means if everyone in the world lived like me then we'd need 3.1 planets, but what about the people who live like Donald Trump or celebrities? How many planets would we need then? I think it is awful that the developed countries take everything away from the underdeveloped ones. I can easily compare this to my roommate and I. In definition, I would be a caring developed country, and she would be the one that wants to take over the world. Right now, she has taken 3/4 of our room, this is comparable to what the developed countries are doing to the underdeveloped countries. Overall, ignoring my problems at the moment, I think it's completely unfair that developed countries are using more than their share. All of these countries should be the ones coming up with ways to save our environment instead of more ways to kill it. All we do is use more and more resources instead of coming up with ways of ruining everything around of us.

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