My Carbon Footprint

By taking the consumer quiz about my lifestyle I found out that it would take 4.9 Earths in order to be sustained by people who live like I do! This was a huge suprise to me because I do not look at the way I live as extravagant or excessive at all.

                        

After takignt the quiz I was given information about each part of my life that contributed to the calculations. For example, I learned that measurements of sustainability are clled "globle acres". Global acres are the amount of biologically producticve space on Earth. The quiz was broken up into 6 different aspects of our daily lives: how your home is structured, electricity used, trash and recycling, vehicles, eating habits and shopping. The fact that shocked me the most was the amount of global acres it takes in order to sustain my driving habbits. It takes 6 global acres! Driving took up the most global acres for me and it was shocking because it's something I do everyday without question. What people don't see are the gas emitions vehicles emit into our air that polute our planet. The second worst consumer of global acres on my quiz was my eating habbits which scored a 5. The quiz questions asked how what percent of my weekly food was locally grown and by this they calculated how much global acres it takes.
Another fact that suprised me was that my trash scored a low 1 global acre. This shocked me because I never recycle any products at all, even though I know I should. I assume that due to our ways of composting and the formation of land fills we are able to keep this number low, which is good.
I believe taking this quiz and being shown just how much we impact sustainability is a great way to educate people about thier habbits which can very easily be changed.

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