Understanding the impact of your personal consumption on the environment

The other resource used , the built-up land , is for the car parking . To make reduction in this category would require removal of the car as my mode of transport since the other consumptions are directly related to the car

The footprint allows me to look at the whole picture . There are aspects of the footprints that are sustainable while others are not . My footprint exceeds the global average of 1 .5 by as much as four times The greatest contributors are fossil and forests . Both of these resources are being quickly used

up (Pound et al , 2003 . Fossil makes 40 of my two resources poses a unique challenge . Fossil is made in the earth over long duration of time and is exhaustible (Pound et al , 2003 . Thus my lifestyle of rapid and huge consumption of it can not be sustained

Fossil is used in many categories directly and indirectly . The other very notable resource is the forest . While consumption of forests continues to be high , there is evidence that more trees are needed (Pound et al , 2003 . Thus the earth needs more trees to be planted as it is . Thus my lifestyle can not be sustained . The other highly consumed resource is arable land . Most of the arable land is used for food production . While this take a big size food is a necessity and production of vegetable food is better sustained than production of animal foods . This is because smaller amounts of animal foods show greater consumption of the resources

For example in my footprint calculation , vegetables , potatoes and fruits have a high amount of 20 but only consume 362 fossil and 218 arable lands . Pork which has an amount of 2 .2 consumes 405 fossil and 234 of arable land . Chicken at an amount of 2 .5 consumes...