Interesting quiz. It seems like a good thumbnail, but yeah, it missed a few highlights in my life, too. Like, I eat much more seafood than red/white meat, which still has sustainability problems but doesn't impact much land space. I work from home, so my low-MPG car and lack of public transport doesn't affect me as much either, though I pegged the flying, too. I grow a (very small) amount of my own food, and catch a bit higher percentage in seafood -- I wonder if that counts toward me for sustainability, or against me as I need more land/water than someone who doesn't.
There should be a question about boat travel -- wind power vs. gas/diesel.
7.4 Earths anyway. I'm a greedy American, I guess.
Ooh 7.4 Earths sounds like a lot, but I think they are also making generalizations based on where you live (so you were labelled greedy American before you even answered any questions about consumption). For instance, there is only a single question about good and services and it is whether you produce more or less garbage than your neighbours. There's nothing about buying habits apart from food. Here in Toronto, the City picks up our compost and recyclables, separately from trash. Does that count as garbage? Shouldn't the type of public transit vehicle matter? I hate to think about the fuel burned by the 65 m long research vessel we use at sea! It's quite shocking really
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According to the quiz, I had a smaller ecological footprint in a rural area near a smaller city, in a much bigger home, which was less energy efficient, driving a car than I am in an apartment in a big city... but I think that's determined by climate. It's a hell of a lot colder here in the winter, so it takes much more energy for heating. I wonder if they assume I use air conditioning in the summer?
And A/C is a way of life here in Florida, but heating is much, much less. Heating, I would guess, would be more efficient just because of entropy, but we have some fairly efficient heat pumps for A/C, though.
It is interesting which cause bumps into other causes. Since organic food takes more time and space than factory-farming, I wonder if the ecological footprint would go down if one ate hormone-fed, stacked-and-caged chicken as opposed to farm-raised.
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There should be a question about boat travel -- wind power vs. gas/diesel.
7.4 Earths anyway. I'm a greedy American, I guess.
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It is interesting which cause bumps into other causes. Since organic food takes more time and space than factory-farming, I wonder if the ecological footprint would go down if one ate hormone-fed, stacked-and-caged chicken as opposed to farm-raised.
It is an interesting quiz, though.
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