Consumption
Consumption is something that is easy to take for granted in our fast paced and demanding lives. What we do in a moment is easily forgotten when we are focusing on our current and future goals. In my life, I try to raise my awareness of the small details so that I can lessen my impact. However, my life is full of demands that I must meet and energy consumption becomes a very necessary part of my routine. In completing the Footprint Calculator, I discovered that my ecological footprint would require 4.3 Planet Earths and 19.3 global acres of the planet's productive area in order to support others in the same lifestyle. In some ways I am not surprised, because I know that Americans live well above the standard of necessity in order to meet the ever rising demands of production and growth. The lifestyle I live right now is not one that I would want to continue living to this degree in the future. Right now I am in college and live very far away for affordable housing. I drive a...