According to www.footprintnetwork.org, it would take 4 planet Earths to sustain the living of the planet's population if everyone lived like me. That's pretty disturbing since I've always considered myself to be more or less an environmentalist.According to www.footprintnetwork.org, it would take 4 planet Earths to sustain the living of the planet's population if everyone lived like me. That's pretty disturbing since I've always considered myself to be more or less an environmentalist.
In the spirit of Chapter 6, about measurement, did you look at the CRITICAL THINKING ACTIVITY at the end of the chapter? For this blog assignment you calculated your carbon footprint using
ReplyDeletewww.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/personal_footprint/
There are other calculators. The text lists these alternative calculators:
> http://www.safeclimate.net
> http://www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx
> http://www.climatecrisis.net/takeaction/carboncalculator/
They imply that there are others, too. We know there are others because we used another one.
Using another calculator, recalculate your footprint. As the critical thinking activity asks, “Is it the same? Why or why not?” Is it due to the questions asked, the variety of questions or the depth of the questions?
Nothing happens until we measure. We can’t manage until we measure. But measuring isn’t as easy or as direct as just saying it. That should have been evident in trying to come up with a list of what we would measure if we wanted an index of human well being.