How much Damage to YOU do??

[cmartyn 0]

I got 32, we only need 7.5 planets :-) And nowhere did it ask about my Gulfstream V or my 150 foot yaught with twin deisil turbines that I just can't live without.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Having personally generated massive amounts of green energy I'm good for a few lifetimes.

[homesick_american 1]

Just so you guys know...if you say you're in the USA and give the exact same answers as someone in the UK, your footprint is bigger.

My footprint taking the test as a UK resident is 5, but with identical answers for the USA, it is 21.

For that reason, this test to me is total B.S.

Edited May 15, 2007 by homesick_american

[homesick_american 1]

ETA: And if I change to the UK and choose all the same answers, I get 9.3. #######?

The test is B.S., that's why. I actually e-mailed them last year when I took this test and asked them why my US footprint was four times the size of my UK footprint. Never did get an answer.

[Ban Hammer 13,342]

ETA: And if I change to the UK and choose all the same answers, I get 9.3. #######?

The test is B.S., that's why. I actually e-mailed them last year when I took this test and asked them why my US footprint was four times the size of my UK footprint. Never did get an answer.

it's easier to make you feel guilty if you're american

i got 28, nothing to take into account i have about 1-2 acres of trees on the property either, and i don't appreciate being zinged for air travel (business requirement). do i feel guilty about my so called footprint?

nope

[Sinergy 3]

CATEGORY ACRES

FOOD 4.7

MOBILITY 1.7

SHELTER 3.5

GOODS/SERVICES 4.7

TOTAL FOOTPRINT 15

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 3.3 PLANETS.

i guess ill go buy a plant

Edited May 15, 2007 by Ionescu

[Ban Hammer 13,342]

interesting, homesick has a very valid point. i filled out everything identical but as living in brazil (converting all of that was fun )

and i got TOTAL FOOTPRINT 8.2

now just how does giving the same answers but in a different country warrant a tripling in score?