Hey,

I thought I would share this quiz with everyone because it really opens your eyes to just how much one person can affect the Planet.
If someone has already created a thread for this I apologise, the Forum Search wouldn't work. :bugeye:
The results are obviously worrying (well, mine were) but I guess that is the purpose, to create awareness etc.

Quiz (http://www.earthday.net/footprint/index.asp)

My results made me sad, well, sadder:
"IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 2.8 PLANETS."
Oh, the shame...


:m: Cheers

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Compared to me, you're a bleedin' saint.

IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 8.4 PLANETS.

hee hee hee...!

6.2 Planets.

If Everyone Lived Like You, We Would Need 1.6 Planets

3.2, not bad eh?

well, not good either...

that calculater is bullshit, if you own a car it adds like 20 acres to your foot print.

earth has a carrying capacity of 9 billion humans in the proportions of people living now,after that,either we or earth dies.

and if stupid people stop having 10 idiot children and only have one or zero,earth will fine.


save a tree,dont breed more fucking idiots.

...said one of the idiots.

CATEGORY GLOBAL HECTARES
FOOD 1.1
MOBILITY 0.8
SHELTER 1.2
GOODS/SERVICES 1.5
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 4.6



IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 8.8 GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.

WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 1.8 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.



IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 2.6 PLANETS.

if every one was like me we would need 2 point 8 planets

that calculater is bullshit, if you own a car it adds like 20 acres to your foot print.earth has a carrying capacity of 9 billion humans in the proportions of people living now,after that,either we or earth dies.and if stupid people stop having 10 idiot children and only have one or zero,earth will fine.save a tree,dont breed more fucking idiots.
whats up mars break the scale?

3.4 planets. But I don't understand. It says "IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 24 ACRES PER PERSON." Wouldn't this mean that with my footprint of 15, mine is much less than the average person's? And by that fact, why would we need more planets than the one we already have?

i was just checknig up on the news, and i found this site on a link from the happy valley campaign: http://www.mfe.govt.nz/withyou/do/footprint/calculator.html
i think it is a more accurate calculator than the other one given

i was all ready to take the test and discovered that the dollar amounts must be in new zealand currency
does anybody have a coversion program handy?

1NZD = approx 0.54EU/approx 0.70USD

4.5 planets for me...not so great..at alll. Blegh.


3.4 planets. But I don't understand. It says "IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 24 ACRES PER PERSON." Wouldn't this mean that with my footprint of 15, mine is much less than the average person's? And by that fact, why would we need more planets than the one we already have?

wow, your countries average is 24!? My countries average is 8.8 acres per person.