Try this short quiz to see what your global footprint is. Read the FAQs, too.
Two things about living here really increase my personal footprint. Both relate to transport costs. Although we don't own a car and don't even ride in them with any regularity, our food does. The other major transport cost is getting ourselves home to see family who are on the other side of the globe.
Bittersweet
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Eyal and I always knew that it would be difficult building a family from
two different countries. It is just now, however, that we have to really
put that ...
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So I was horrified to discover I scored 3.5 planets! I ticked pretty ecological options most of the time, and *still* need 3.5 planets??!!?!
What was your score?
I scored 4.6 planets whereas the average for my area was over 7, so not bad in that sense. However, I then took the quiz as if I was back in Eritrea during our PC days and my score was 1.2 planets, STILL more than the Earth can bear. How can it be that in a town where nearly all foodstuffs were locally grown and produced, where I had no electricity or running water and where I commuted by bicycle, I required more than a planet of resources. As you noted, I guess it's the fuel consumption (for goods and on the occasional hitch) that drive up the costs. Curious.
Atomastica,
It's cool that you tried it for Eritrea; I didn't think of that.
I can think of a couple of reasons your "Eritrean" score could be high (besides the obvious reason that the quiz is skewed). Did you live alone? Think of the resources that went into building your house (even if it was a hudmo); clearly less resources are used when groups of people live together.
Second, are you sure that most of the food was locally grown? In Mendefera's market were sellers from relatively far away (bananas and all other fruit, for example, were not grown in Zoba Debub, nor coffee nor sugar). The population of Eritrea as a whole is dependent on food aid, so it's likely that that fact is figured in (food aid probably came from another continent).
What do you think?
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