ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT

• The ecological footprint calculates the amount of land and water we need to provide everything we use in life.

ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT

Energy for transports

Settlements Food Seafood

Wood and paper

People consume these resources very

fast and generate waste

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EVERYTHING IS IN NATURE HOW FAST CAN NATURE ABSORB OUR

WASTE…

AND GENERATE NEW RESOURCES?

For example…

If you want to eat a hamburger…

You need meat, cheese, tomatoes, lettuce…

Meat and cheese come from animals.

The animals need to eat the grass from the land

Tomatoes and lettuce grow in fields

Then, the hamburgers are made in a factory

Finally, you go to the supermarket to buy the products.

What you don’t want is waste

• So all the resources you need everyday, have an impact on the planet.

• It makes the ecological footprint bigger and bigger.

Nowadays we are using one planet and a half to get the resources we

consume

So it takes the Earth one year and a half to regenerate the resources

How big is your footprint?

If we don’t reduce the consume of The Earth resources, we will run out of

them

The bigger your footprint is, the most you are wasting and damaging the environment and the planet.

How can we reduce the human impact on the earth?