Importance of the Ecological Footprint

Importance of the Ecological Footprint Everyone has desire, and it will never get satisfied. Because of our desire, we use all the resources we can reach or find to produce better product and develop the technology to make our life better and easier. Ecologists have warned us so many times, every action has its consequences. One day all the resources on the planet will deplete, if we keep on using the resource like this and speed up every year. We all understand the consequences but majority of us refuse to take a step to stop or slow down what is happening just simply because most of us are selfish and don’t want to give up our good life to make the future generations have a better life. In order to understand that how our lifestyles can impact the environment differently. We can calculate our ecological footprint by looking at the result of our ecological footprint we can understand that which parts of our lifestyle should be change to help establish sustainable living. Ecological footprint accounts for the flows of energy and matter and from any defined economy and coverts these into the corresponding land/water area required for nature to support these flows. In other wards, the ecological footprint can estimate the amount of resources that necessary to support a human consumption. The ecological footprint can be allocated to different end-use categories (food, shelter, mobility, goods and services), and land types (forest, cropland, energy, fish and grazing land). Different country, different city, different community, different family and different person has different ecological footprint, depends on people’s lifestyle. For examples, most of the students and salary man usually have meals at the restaurants or from take out and use drying machinery after washing their cloths since they have more busy life style. And the normal family might just go to the market to get some organic ingredients, cook their own meal in the house and sun dry their cloths

Cited: Alessandro K Cerutti ; Gabriele L Beccaro ; Marco Bagliani ; Dario Donno ; Giancarlo Bounous. “Methodology for Determining the Ecological Footprint of the Construction of Residential Buildings in Andalusia (Spain).” Journal of Cleaner Production, n.d. Web. 13 May 2013.