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- KlayBorg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+130Mars.
- pozzoe, on 10/12/2007, -10/+112Oh... and I think I should get a bonus for the gay thing... you know, if everyone were like me humankind would only survive 1 generation.
- Junkyarddawg, on 10/12/2007, -6/+99Wow, you guys have small footprints. I need 8 planets, mainly because I use my car to get to work. Would 5 billion people get off this planet so I can continue living the way I'm used to plz?
- carguy84, on 10/12/2007, -8/+998.9, now pass me another styrofoam cup
- stonedslacker, on 10/12/2007, -6/+71Only 1.0 for me. :-) I'm from India so guess that gave me an edge.
CATEGORY GLOBAL HECTARES
FOOD 0.3
MOBILITY 0.2
SHELTER 0.6
GOODS/SERVICES 0.4
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 1.5
IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 0.8 GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.
WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 1.8 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.
IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 1.0 PLANETS. - daRoach, on 10/12/2007, -3/+67KlayBorg, that metaphorically made me laugh.
- Nerfdude, on 10/12/2007, -11/+707.7 just doesn't seem high enough. i'm gonna go vent a 15 pound tank of Freon i found in the garage to the atmosphere, and hopefully attain an even 8.0.
- dtfinch, on 10/12/2007, -3/+513.5 for me. They forgot to ask how fat I am.
- marcuschi, on 10/12/2007, -4/+51I got 6.2. What do I win?
- dtfinch, on 10/12/2007, -4/+47Well, it looks like if I'm a 12 year old vegan who grows his own food and lives in a 500sqft green designed house with 7 relatives and no electricity, and I don't ride in any motor vehicles, ever, it'd only take 1 earth to sustain us if everyone else lived the same. I'm curious how they arrived at their numbers.
Honestly, if you look at Google Earth, almost the entire planet is undeveloped. - cruxop, on 10/12/2007, -7/+42 This test is biased against US residents. I live in Ghana and the US. When I entered my information as a US resident, it reported that I would use 3.5 earths. When I enter my info as a Ghanain---the exact same input except for the location, it outputs that if everyone lives like me, we will only need a single planet.
So if you're American, don't worry about the results. It won't need 8, 9, or 10+ earths to support the population if everyone lives like you... it'll need that many earths if everyone lives like you AND everyone lives IN THE USA. - wiredclimber, on 10/12/2007, -2/+317.7 planets...
Quick, sell your car, ride your bike, grow your own food;
Watch 10 Hummers drive by on the freeway and realize it's all for naught :( - coditza, on 10/12/2007, -4/+33That test is to see what would happen if EVERYONE will do exactly what you do. It's not about YOUR impact on the world.
- aguynamedben, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30@ngmcs8203 - use "animal power"
- ProximaC, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30I took the test twice. Once saying I was from America, once from Thailand. I answered the questions exactly the same, only converting feet to meters and gallons to liters.... As an American, I need 3.5 planets, but as a Thai, I only need 1...
Same home, same size, same driving habits, etc...
If this is a global thing, why is the test so skewed against America? Someone in another country living in the same house, driving the same, eating the same, same size family, etc should have the same "footprint" as me. - eolite, on 10/12/2007, -4/+32i need 1.0 earths ... i'm from india too
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28Priuses are harmful to the environment, they produce too much smug.
- pbs1914, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26I wish there was a little more transparency in how the calculated the final number. I don't think it does as much as it could to show the resources the everyday choices we make consume.
- 1337Einstein, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23Um, I'm one of those "idiotic liberals" the conservative nutjobs keep bitching about, and I'd have to call whatever math they use *****
- theOster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+228 acres
1.8 earths
NYC
hopefully staten island would be left out of the 0.8... - scallon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23You should go slap your teacher.
- foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19Edit time ran out:
Looks like it is rigged. Everybody from India is getting 1.0 Earths...
I tried everything at most efficient, and it was a footprint of 0.9, compared to my actual of 1.3. - aldenhg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18I'm just 2.6. I figured it'd be higher.
- pozzoe, on 10/12/2007, -3/+191 planet for me... I'm from Argentina.
It helps that I work at home and mainly walk when I have to go to another places.
Also that I eat local products mainly.
1.8 foot print from a mean of 3 in my country.
Now... what does this tell us about economics?
Would it be a better world if people in the 1st World consumed less resources or would that make poor countries poorer (you know, less exportation).
Would production be more or less efficient if we used less resources? - tkstock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16I tried using "animal power" once - those mice just weren't up to the task. Think I'll try ants next time - they're supposed to be really strong..
- markr, on 10/12/2007, -10/+25@ngmcs8203 - get a bike, move closer to work, campaign for more public transport
- Fighterspj, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18wow i suck i got 17.2
oops time to go and burn more tires! - superal1394, on 10/12/2007, -8/+204.9 planets... I LIKE MY V8!!
I use CFL's! and I turn off my computer when I'm not at it, I even set my thermostat down to 68 this winter, it failed to ask that.
how does eating meat adversly affect the environement? I mean, I love the earth and all, but I love my cheese burger more. - MF03, on 10/12/2007, -13/+25This isn't very realistic. It fails to account for income distribution and the fact that we will NEVER have everyone consuming the same amounts of things.
- obrysii, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Yeah, this is rigged against the U.S.
I put everything to maximum, and got 69 hectacres when U.S. is selected.
I did the same, and got 21 hectacres when Japan is selected. - mrops, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12The question is not home many earths we need to survice,
The question is home many servers does the site need to survive (digg) - Fabozz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Because if you had less hair you'd use fewer resources. Duh.
- foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I havent changed my lifestyle since coming from India, and it made a difference from 1.0 Earths to 4.7 Earths....
Then again, I said I drive everywhere with someone else, but he was a driver.
I never walked places, always using a car... Just living in a country and doing what they do is really efficient... - keegan3d, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Yeah I am curious too as to what math they are doing under the hood, what about the studies that show there is not enough farmland for everyone on the planet to be a vegan?
- howzitgoin88, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12I dont know how much waste i have in relation to my neighbours! Its not like i'm out there going through their garbage on bin nights!!!
- coollettuce, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12nope, its 30.
http://i18.tinypic.com/4bza1a8.png - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12"1.5 Milkyways"
Damn! You've got that low footprint thing DOWN!
Because I know I'd need more than 1.5 candy bars.
>.> - ngmcs8203, on 10/12/2007, -6/+16What if public transportation is not a viable option in my area?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11How about if we eat all the vegans? Won't that help?
- RareSaturn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Clearly the Earth is not big enough, and we need to expand the space program to find other habitable planets.
- tkstock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Yeah, so kill the babies! Kill the babies! Stop procreation! Save the animals! Kill the humans! Save the earth! Humans are just an infestation of the planet!
/sarchasm
This ecoprint thing is designed to sensationalize by misdirection. I'm sure their "calculations" are really accurate! (damn, more sarchasm, I really have to stop that) - nekteo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10that link redirect me to "Laser Hair Removal New York"...
why? - psygnisfive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Urban areas are far more space efficient and have a smaller impact on the environment. Suburban areas, on the other hand, are low density, and require massive use of automobiles. Suburbia is destroying the planet.
- nekteo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8http://www.earthday.net/footprint/index_reset.asp?pid=239068872276110
i think this is the alternate link... - dude187, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8"If this is a global thing, why is the test so skewed against America? Someone in another country living in the same house, driving the same, eating the same, same size family, etc should have the same "footprint" as me."
Because this test has not a single tiny shred of scientific significance in any part of it whatsoever. It's simply a test that asks incomplete and vauge questions about your daily habits and tells _Americans_ they are using too much energy, and tells the entire rest of the planet there doing a.ok. - Rcdriver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+77.8... I need to install a Mr Fusion.
- b3mus3d, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8my guess is that if you get less than 1 it rounds up.
- dissident, on 10/12/2007, -1/+86.7... once I move into an apartment that will drop to 4.4
It's not my fault that other peoples in other nations breed like rabbits. - bioskope, on 10/12/2007, -0/+61.8 , thanks to being a piss poor grad student
- FTLJohnson, on 10/12/2007, -18/+24Wow, do people actually beleieve in this kind of nonsense? Way to build an overgeneralization calculator that does not take into account any advances in modern technology or market demands creating solutions to problems.
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