[HW] Ecological Footprint

Continuing from my last post, I mentioned that I will introduce my second part of my first assignment. This next assignment called for me to go onto Global Footprint Network to calculate many earths it would take if everyone in the world had the safe lifestyle as I.
The "game" started with having the player create their own avatar that would represent all of your future answers.

From there I was asked detailed questions. Some being questions I would never think would be of great significance:

After all of the questions my result was quite alarming. If everyone lived the way I live my results would be...

Almost four planets would be necessary to sustain my lifestyle!

I did think that the result would be more than one planet (though I was hoping otherwise!), but 4 planets is quite astounding to say the least. According to the pie chart, the largest aspect of my life that I depend on is services. I depend alot upon the middle man and processed materials. 

After this realization, I thought to myself "Gee. This is just awful. How can I reduce my huge footprint on my 4 planets?" Well - This site has it covered! What was next was to read through scenarios displaying options to practically reduce one's footprint. 

Specific scenarios that stood out to me were the ideas to take public transportation at least once a week and finding products that use less packaging. How simple is that! reducing your footprint can be so easy, one just has to made an effort and to be active in one's decisions.

If my four-world footprint could manage to heed all of the suggestions, I would be able to reduce my footprint by almost one planet! How crazy cool is that?

Anyway, that site has wonderful and helpful solutions for those who really want to make an effort to care for the world around us. You all should check it out! And let me know your footprint and what you decide to do to reduce it!

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