How many planets do you use?

"Today, the average Earth citizen has a Footprint of 2.8 global hectares . But only 2 global hectares exist per person, and other species need resources too. This means today's human demand on nature is more than the biosphere can replace."

Footprint

I'm at 5.8... ~.~' Must... get... lower....!

How about you guys... This is a really interesting quiz to take!

~ Bobo

Quote:

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IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 4 PLANETS.

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Well that was a great way to end th day... , now I feel just dandy...

Um... I'm American. Why the hell would I care?

"Nature started the fight for survival and now she wants to quit because she's looooosing" -Mr. Burns

I am the same as you Bobo at 5.9......

Have heard this theory before...

damn....im doing the worst with 5.2

we would all need 2.9 planets if everyone lived like me,....

well, actually thats crap

that question about how often you travel in a car with someone else...

i have to ALWAYS travel in a car with someone else as i cant drive..

motorbike?!?!

WTF?? i dont own a motor bike. there was no option for no km travelled.

some of those quizes can be really biased.

oh dear. 3.7 planets
poor mother earth

3.7 Valura..I m impressed

*poke*

Well, i only need 1.8 planets.

so if we colonise Mars then we could all live like me quite sustainably

Uh... UCOF, there is an option for 0km on the motorbike

~ Bobo

"Total Footprint 2.
Average ecological footprint in your country is 5.3 global hectares per person.
If everyone lived like you, we would need 1.1 planets."

Still room for improvement

1.6 planets - Wow thats not bad. I didnt realise I was that eco friendly. So if I use the moon as well as the earth is that ok?

6.1
thats 3.4 planets.
Better then the avarage for my country, but it still sucks. As soon as I don't live here....

2.9
Most of that coming from what I eat.

TOTAL FOOTPRINT 3.6

IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 2 PLANETS

sorry for caps but i just copied and pasted :/

its slightly unscientific to say the least

Apparently, I've got a footprint of 2.2 hectares.
Makes me wonder how I fit into my shoes

So, according to that, a world population consisting entirely of my clones would need 1.2 planets.
I don't even think that's a whole extra planet needed, we could probably get away with just using the moon.

Well my footprint is 6.5 Hectares and I need 3.6 planets

But (there is always a but, it follows me around ;-) )

My countries average is 8.7 hectares

Lucky I live on a farm of just over 1000 hectares so I can actually get some exercise and walk around with my big feet.

17. Ouch. Of course, if my city OFFERED public transportation anywhere near where I live, that would be much lower...

My footprint is 1.9.

I would need 1.1 planets. Thats like Earth and a tiny bit of the moon

Ha, ya know, if you act dead, meaning your over 65, don't eat meat... cos you can't... live in a 50 meter or smaller home... i.e. a coffin... and don't travel... inside your body that is... we only need 1.0 planets... I WIN! I WIN!!!

Hrmmmm.... bummer. After careful review the quiz seems to have a liberal slant (surprise, surprise).. If you pick all of the crazy 'best' answers (like live with 7 people in a 500 square foot house and no electricity and never eat or drive) you still end up using 1 planet.

Since many of us do have electricity and eat meat and such... and we're not dead... it seems that the poll is a bit off. I had hoped that it was basically saying that "by living in excess like I do it makes some poor farmer in Ethiopia have less"... but actually that poor farmer in Ethiopia is taking up too much of a foot print also.

So all I really need to do is kill 6 Ethiopian farmers and I can drive my SUV 100 miles a day and I'm still taking up less of a footprint than if I was never born. Actually, I can kill any 6 people and I'm good. Excellent.

So by killing others I can feel less guilty about not carpooling. Cool.

See and I thought the war in Iraq was a bad thing.

I think I may have missed the point though.

COnsidering I live in London I think 1.8 planets is pretty good..when I go to my parents I grow all my own veg and we slaughter our own meat so our footprint is better...

Still appauling though.

Kelly

Total Footprint: 15

3.4 planets.

Eep

TOTAL FOOTPRINT 2.3

IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 7.6 GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.

IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 1.3 PLANETS

sorry about the caps too....

I use 1.4 to 1.6 ha depending on how i answer (sometimes I am just in the middle of two options).
One World is Enough for me.

Yes, my house is eco-designed, i actively shun planes (so I just spent 27 hours coming back from lovely Scotland by boat & train. Plane & train would have been about 4 hours, and cheaper.) and I eat no meat. I found a job nearby, before that my print was more like 3.4ha for traveling to Amsterdam. And no it does not hurt to live like that.

NYC: "Um... I'm American. Why the hell would I care?"
That's the spirit!

Fritter: "some of those quizes can be really biased. "
MrFlibble: "its slightly unscientific to say the least "
There are versions where you get to fill in every little detail. Like how many cups of milk or slices of cheese a day, electricity use in kWh per year, type of clothes and how long you wear them etc.
Then they do a lot of math and produce a 5-digit-precision number of all these things combined in one unit, here being the area needed to sustain you.
But why would you do all that. In the end the recalculation of all these things into one unit is just a way to make a quick indication that everyone can understand.

I think the value of this 'footprint' is to give you a quick impression of your impact. The questions are very well chosen to give the quickest possible result. You can be ready within two minutes and they show how you are compared to others and what part of your life has the largest impact.

Say what?? I take the subway and ate cookies for lunch. Still came out at 2.7 planets! Well I guess that would balance out my postage-stamp sized apartment.

Americans are fatasses. So at least I'm consistent.

TOTAL FOOTPRINT 5.1

IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 7.6 GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.

IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 2.8 PLANETS.

that quiz is so crap! how the hell am i supposed to know the population of my town? the size of my house? and the fuel efficiency of my car which i can't even legally drive and therefore ALWAYS share a car?

aww, and its nice to now that the only way to use one planet is to be a vegan who lives in a commune, walks everywhere and doesnt have electricity or running water. obviously THAT was where i was getting it wrong!

Total footprint 19 and I need 4.5 planets.

This must mean Im a real American

5.9 or 3.5 planets.

As I'm in the mining industry my tunnelling activities are making more space for footprints though.

Rouge Dragon said:
"that quiz is so crap! how the hell am i supposed to know the population of my town? the size of my house? and the fuel efficiency of my car which i can't even legally drive and therefore ALWAYS share a car?"
Oh they are just estimates. Take the closest number for population that looks good. For car efficiency: i did not even get to that question but that's pretty vital to compare car use ain't it? One could state the quiz was crap when it did NOT ask about that.

and

"aww, and its nice to now that the only way to use one planet is to be a vegan who lives in a commune, walks everywhere and doesnt have electricity or running water. obviously THAT was where i was getting it wrong!"
I think you are pretty close yet far away from the intended message. Big helpers in having a low footprint are what you eat and how you travel, i think that's the main message. So if you aim for a lower footprint, travel less and eat less meat.