Footprints

[tinyjo]

According to My Footprint we'd need 1.9 planets if everyone lived like me. On the other hand, I have a smaller footprint than averge for the UK. It's all approximate - I had to guess a bit - but quite interesting, none the less. [via diffrentcolours]

Comments

[pikelet.livejournal.com]

I get 4.3 planets.

I win!

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

We'd need three planets if everyone was like me. Oops.

Kinda puts feeling virtuous about recycling into perspective ...

[tinyjo.livejournal.com]

Yeah. My big boob is eating too much non-local produce. All of your extra planets probably come from the fact that you use a car and I don't (*smug*), which is tricky for you to avoid.

I'm sure cars have an effect, but ...

[applez.livejournal.com]

I don't drive, and I still have a serious impact, probably due to size and emptiness of my house; and flying.

Flying must be the lodestone I think.

Flying makes a really big difference.

[jinty]

Originally I put more than 100 hours flying per year, and I needed more than 7 planets...

I answered more optimistically for a few things

[jinty]

(including 25 hours flying per year) and still needed 3.2 planets.

Re: I answered more optimistically for a few things

[tinyjo.livejournal.com]

Whereas I fly on average 0 times a year - I've only done it 6 times in my life and plan to do it as little as humanly possible, given that it makes me feel fairly sick.

[shepline.livejournal.com]

2.2 planets for me I'm afraid, which is still woefully too many! I think most of that can be accounted for by the car use, but I'm not convinced I did the kilometre to mile conversion correctly...

3.4 planets, oh well

[applez.livejournal.com]

I'm screwed largely because I have a large house (by global standards) that I live in alone, mostly.

Also, I fly at least 25 hours a year due to work and the annual commute to family and my sweetheart 9 timezones away.

I also eat out too often, which necessarily means distant foodsources in most cases.

Oh well. A few changes can bring that down, and I could get serious about buying trees to neutralise my carbon emissions.

[asciident]

I've taken this before and I found it to have a bit of an unrealistic perspective.