Sci 207 Week One Assignment

Assignment 1 – Environmental Footprint



TABLE A. Ecological Footprint

Footprint Results
(Answers to the following 2 questions will be given upon completion of footprint)

If everyone lived like you, how many planet Earth’s would we need?
4.6
To support your lifestyle, how many productive global acres area needed?
20.3

Ecological Footprint Breakdown
(Values can be obtained by scrolling over pie chart generated at completion of footprint)

Percent of emissions from Food
29
Percent of emissions from Shelter
6
Percent of emissions from Mobility
6
Percent of emissions from Goods
15
Percent of emissions from Services
43
       




TABLE B. Household Emissions

Household Emissions Results
(Answers can be found in bar graphs following completion of calculator)

What are your current household emissions?
36914
What are the U.S. average household emissions?
145250
What was your reduced emissions?
29947

Household Emissions Savings
(Answers can be found above bar graphs

If you took all actions you would reduce annual emissions by:
6967
If you took all actions your potential dollar savings would be:
299
Your new total annual estimated CO2 emissions:
29947
       



QUESTIONS


1. Based on your findings from the ecological footprint calculator, how many Earth’s would be needed to support the global population if everyone lived your same lifestyle?   Additionally, describe the impacts on the Earth’s climate, biodiversity, and economic security if every individual in the world lived your same lifestyle and discuss why these impacts would occur.

Answer =

A. Earth's Climate? Basically it all depends on the people in the population itself. Basically which people live the same lifestyle. However if everyone was living in the same condition as me then I think that the world would not be in existence. And the people in the world would be extinct because we would not be able to survive by any means.


B....