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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?