Eugene Coyle wrote:
The environmental impact of an individual is highly correlated with income.
Environmental footprint: http://www.earthday.net/footprint Here's mine: CATEGORY ACRES FOOD 3.5 MOBILITY 0.2 SHELTER 1 GOODS/SERVICES 0.7 TOTAL FOOTPRINT 5 IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 24 ACRES PER PERSON. WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 4.5 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE ACRES PER PERSON. IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 1.2 PLANETS. I'm just a little over-planet-ed... and I live like a dirt-cheap hippie zen asshole monk with little accumulated ... stuff.... I don't think there are too many middle class people that would care to live the 'lifestyle' I live. Ecological footprint alone is not the solution, but it would mitigate much of the damage created by other factors that aren't so quickly or easily resolved. One could change their 'lifestyle' in just a matter of moments, days, or weeks/months and have an immediate effect on the ecosphere. Leigh http://leighm.net/
