SCIENCE
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
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Question
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mark a person s shoe makes in soft earth.
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number of animals a person has killed.
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amount of land and ocean area needed to support one person.
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number of trees people cut down.
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Detailed explanation-1: -A carbon footprint is the total amount of greenhouse gases (including carbon dioxide and methane) that are generated by our actions. The average carbon footprint for a person in the United States is 16 tons, one of the highest rates in the world. Globally, the average carbon footprint is closer to 4 tons.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ecological Footprint | WWF. The simplest way to define ecological footprint would be to call it the impact of human activities measured in terms of the area of biologically productive land and water required to produce the goods consumed and to assimilate the wastes generated.
Detailed explanation-3: -A person’s ecological footprint is the total amount of land required to offset a person’s carbon emissions. The table below shows ecological footprint data for five different students. Each value is a measure of the number of hectares per land required.