Human ecological footprint

Ecological footprint

The ecological footprint is a measure of ecological human demand on the Earth’s ecosystems.

Humanity needs what nature provides, but how do we know how much we’re using and how much we have to use?

The Ecological Footprint has emerged as the world’s premier measure of humanity’s demand on nature. It measures how much land and water area a human population requires to produce the resource it consumes and to absorb its wastes, using prevailing technology.

By the years pass, the human have influenced all World’s ecosystems, and even the weather. We use petrol to produce gasoline or plastic. We take out coal to produce energy, and aluminium to take cans; and water to drink… but the most important is Co2 that we send to the air, it is caused by the burning of coal, petrol and gas. Another important influence in the Earth is the throwing of waste to the ground, it is also important to recycle. The cutting of trees is also another type to damage the different ecosystems.

Canadian ecological footprint

Canada is one of the countries with the largest ecological footprint per person:

	Year 2003	Year 2005
Canadian footprint	7.6	7.1
Classification	4th	7th

Personal opinion

People depend on the nature to survive.

If we are going to continue having good living conditions, we must be sure that nature’s productivity isn’t used more quickly than it can be renewed, and that waste isn't discharged more quickly than nature can absorb it.