SCIENCE
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
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Detailed explanation-1: -n. (Physical Geography) the amount of productive land appropriated on average by each person (in the world, a country, etc) for food, water, transport, housing, waste management, and other purposes.
Detailed explanation-2: -As we burn fossil fuels and cut down forests, high concentrations of greenhouse gases, specifically carbon dioxide, threaten to raise the average surface temperature of the planet to intolerable levels-and cause a host of life-threatening impacts.
Detailed explanation-3: -According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a carbon footprint is a measure of the impact people’s activities have on the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) produced through the burning of fossil fuels and is expressed as a weight of CO2 emissions produced in tonnes.
Detailed explanation-4: -As previously mentioned, ecological footprint is often expressed as global hectares. For example, in order to live within the means of what the earth can sustain, the world’s ecological footprint would have to be equal to the biocapacity available per person which is 1.7 global hectares on average.