1. What is the total number of acres needed to support you?
2. How does your Ecological Footprint break down into the different consumption categories: Food, shelter, mobility, goods, and services? What does this tell you?
3. How does your Footprint compare to the 2016 U.S. average per capita Footprint of approximately 8.1 hectares/ 20 acres (Global Footprint Network, 2019)? Does this surprise you? Why or why not?
4. How many planet Earths would be needed to support the human population if everyone lived like you? When is your personal Earth Overshoot Day? What does this mean?
5. Of course, not everyone’s ecological footprint is the same. Based on the global average ecological footprint, the Global Footprint Network (n.d.) estimates that we need 1.7 planet Earths to support our global population. By using more resources than our planet can regenerate annually, the global population has an “ecological overshoot” (Global Footprint Network, n.d).
   Is this sustainable? Why or why not?
6. What are the consequences of our large ecological footprints? In particular, what environmental issues have our large ecological footprints produced?

References:

Global Footprint Network. (2019). United States 2016. National Footprint Accounts, 2019 Edition (Data Year 2016). Retrieved 2 July 2019 from http://data.footprintnetwork.org/#/

Global Footprint Network. (n.d.). World Footprint. In Ecological Footprint. Retrieved 2 July 2019 from https://www.footprintnetwork.org/our-work/ecological-footprint/