SCIENCE
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
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Indonesia
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Britain
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the United States
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India
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Detailed explanation-1: -How does the ecological footprint of the United States compared with the world average ecological footprint? The ecological footprint of the United States is more than three times larger than the world average.
Detailed explanation-2: -The world’s average footprint per person is about 2.. 7 hectares per person. At that size, we are depleting our renewable resources 30% faster than they can replenish. The U.S. average footprint is 9.5 hectares, which is times larger than the average world footprint.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Ecological Footprint of a person is calculated by adding up all of people’s demands that compete for biologically productive space, such as cropland to grow potatoes or cotton, or forest to produce timber or to sequester carbon dioxide emissions.