What do aliens think of people?

How do we treat our home?

How do you treat the planet you live on?

Are we all as bad as each other?

Global Footprint

All of you will know what a global footprint is

Most of you will calculate your global footprint and suggest how it could be reduced

Some of you will compare your global footprint to other people’s around the world

LO: To calculate our global footprints and compare them to other people locally and globally.

Global Footprint …

How much land, sea and atmosphere it takes to support your lifestyle. It is measured in global hectares or planets.

How much productive sea and freshwater we use to feed

us

How much energy, water and materials

we use

How many emissions we

produce

How much productive land we

need to feed us (crops/grazing)

How much land we need to absorb our

waste

We are going to go up to

Room 32.

You will need a pencil

http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/home/calculator_complete

This is your global footprint. If everyone lived like you

we’d need this many planets

When you have calculated your global footprint, use this page to complete your footprint sheet

These are ideas you can use to

reduce your footprint

1. Is your footprint larger or smaller than the UK average of 3.4 planets?

2. Why does buying things make our footprint bigger?

3. What happens to the size of a country’s global footprint as it gets richer? Why do you think this is?

4. Can we continue behaving this way?

Size of global footprint

Less developed more developed

What happens to the size of a country’s footprint as it gets more developed? Why might this be?

Do the following slides show

a. problems caused by large footprints

b. Ways of reducing our global footprints