jato wrote:CATEGORY ACRES
FOOD 5.9
MOBILITY 17.8
SHELTER 3.2
GOODS/SERVICES 19
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 46
WisJim wrote:Nothing about alternative energy, growing your own food, etc. Way to general to be meaningful.
I don't see where them being 18 makes any difference. They don't stop taking up ecological space just because they're 18. I think it should be a straight out multiplier on your foot print. Since two parents each deserve partial responsibility, the multiplier is half your number of kids, plus one for yourself. So someone with one kid has a multiplier of 1.5, etc.Loki wrote:Someone earlier made a good point about the EF test not including kids. How should kids be included? Maybe lump them into their parents' EF until they turn 18?
I've seen comparisons saying that for a European average standard of living, we would be sustainable at a population level of 2.5 billion. So these numbers are roughly convergent.
Assume powerdown slightly beyond that level, i.e. to an Eastern European average rather than Western European average, and perhaps one planet could support about 3 billion humans. (After all, people in Eastern Europe still manage to eat enough and stay clean...)
Nature's got the solution for us, in the form of a dieoff of about half the population. After that, the rest is easy.
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