Oh no!

[davywavy]

Your ecological footprint test says that if everyone lived like you, we'd need two whole Earths to supply the resources!

[Poll #998043]

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[elbly.livejournal.com]

My real answer is 'kill 3 billion people' - but I just don't have enough time, so I went for the more achievable response... how dull am I?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Just start by killing one person at a time and work up from there. You'll be surprised how deasy it gets after a while.

[elbly.livejournal.com]

Oh the ease of it doesn't concern me - it's the time involved.

I mean the number of people you'd have to employ, the planning, the burials/cremations, etc. It's a lot of work! And how are you going to actually do the do?

Sorry, I just don't have the time, I'll just have to cut my emmissions.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Yo're planning on burying them? Leaving bodies to rot on the streets is a quick way to speed up the process by the encouraging of disease! Have you no imagination?

[elbly.livejournal.com]

But then I might catch the disease! That's not the plan! I'm ment to live so that I can enjoy my extravegant life style!

[fonnparr.livejournal.com]

Going round and killing 3 billion people is going to raise your travel footprint quite significantly

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I'll offset by planting trees on every one of their corpses.

[raggedhalo.livejournal.com]

I'll include you in my 3 billion for using offsetting!

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Come now. Next you'll be suggesting that reintroducing fossil carbon to the atmosphere and expecting biological means to absorb it immediately is completely witless!

[raggedhalo.livejournal.com]

Have you seen Cheat Neutral? It takes the carbon offsetting model and applies it to infidelity! *grin*

[drplokta]

Why not kill five billion? Then you can triple your own footprint.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

You speak with great wisdom.

[kittensandsteam.livejournal.com]

CATEGORY GLOBAL HECTARES

FOOD 1.4

MOBILITY 0

SHELTER 0.4

GOODS/SERVICES 0.4

TOTAL FOOTPRINT 2.2



IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 6.7 GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.

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




IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 1.2 PLANETS.


That's what I got but the quiz is largely incorrect.
To start with, it's for people with cars. I don't have a car, nor do I drive, so my footprint would have been considerably lower.

It's just not specific enough in my opionion.

[raggedyman.livejournal.com]

its your normal 'eco-warrior' guilt trip tosh imo
Not saying we don't need to cut back (we all do) but shock tactics like this just annoy me these days.

[kittensandsteam.livejournal.com]

footprint tests like that are just idiotic.
e.g. I never fly if I can avoid it. And I won't be flying the coming years.
But when I've saved up enough money to go on a serious holiday on another continent I'll have to fly.
That one many hours plane trip will make my footprint suddenly go up to what? 4 at least I think.
No matter how well I recycle, buy food at bio markets etc.

I think it's a good idea to make people aware of the situation, and to provide tests where they can see how well they're doing, but they should at least make proper tests.

[applez.livejournal.com]

I haven't looked at this version in detail, but there are other "footprint" tools that can be weighed to national averages (e.g. the average Briton, even with cold weather and a car fixation has a lower carbon impact than the average American).

[wyrdness.livejournal.com]

It's nice to see that at least a your readers are concerned with reducing the population problems we face today.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

If they didn't want killin', they shouldn't have been foreign.

[(Anonymous)]

You missed out "set out to discover new Earth-like planets and subjugate them". Apparently I personally need four, for starters.

We'd better also work on our weapons programme, just in case the alien life-forms try to resist extermination.

H

re: 3 billion down

[applez.livejournal.com]

Clearly, this is the veiled policy of the United States. 10 wasted years, no movement on even collecting C02 emissions data, but build yet more carrier battlegroups, as well as restoring plutonium pit production?

Tell me that some callous use of force isn't in the cards?

[hobbsthepenguin.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised you haven't made a post about this one yet: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6641499.stm

Mybreasts.org ....my first thought was, isn't that kinda like myspace?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

My favourite bit is that the organisation of surgeons who do breast surgery is called "BAPS"

[raggedhalo.livejournal.com]

I dunno...cos if everyone lived like me, we'd need 1.0 planets.

Me = win.

*smug*

[(Anonymous)]

You can have Saturn

H

[raggedhalo.livejournal.com]

That's very kind. But I think it's implicit that they mean Earth, or at least Earth-like planets.

I imagine I'd get shipped to the Vega system ;-)

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Ah, self righteousness and boastfulness! No wonder you're trying to get into politics...

[raggedhalo.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to be just like you! ;-)

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Alas, I have no interest in entering politics. I strongly urge you to aspire to that aspect of my nature too!

[(Anonymous)]

11.1 - I rule!

[(Anonymous)]

30 planets if I try hard enough, or 5.8 billion people

[(Anonymous)]

Well done. That 4.3 litre V8 never felt so good. Sounds lovely idling in traffic, I can picture the little munchkins choking every time I blip the throttle.