My Footprint: Planets To Maintain Lifestyle

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My footprint
Planets to maintain lifestyle
According to the results of myfootprint.org score if everyone on the planet lived my lifestyle we would need 1.61 earths. This highlights that I need to change my footprint wile considering the consumption and biome categories.
Scores
The site highlights how much land would be necessary to support my lifestyle, and the calculation is based on the notion that an ecological footprint of each individual that is dependent on the use of Earth’s resources to support how they live, what they eat and move. My energy use contributed to the ecological footprint score, and when compared to the country’s average of 1.11 more earths is high, and when compared to the less industrialized countries it is even higher. I also think my choice of goods and services influenced the total ecological footprint and number of earths, as I look of cheap products regardless of their origin and even travel long distances to get my favorite products and services. Many goods tend to be packaged in plastics and this increases the level of waste and especially for products in small amounts and discarded old products.
Changes to reduce the score
The ecological footprint results are surprising and as a student, I am in a place where I can take action and influence others to reduce their carbon footprint as individual and collective efforts influences how resources are used. The biggest contributor of ecological footprint in the scores was goods and services, and shopping locally is one of the ways to reduce the footprint. Additionally, reusing and cycling materials will reduce waste as is buying the recycled products. I will also choose filtered and tap water over bottled water, which requires packaging and storage in plastic bottles.
Another component of wastage is recycling to reduce the waste generated and his includes recycling and reusing shopping bags, containers and scrap papers. Sustainable use of resources and living also extends to transportation and I have control to make changes, and where necessary I will walk rather than use private car transportation when the distances are short. The public transportation option is another activity that reduces carbon footprint as increasing the number of private cars is associated with high increased vehicle miles and carbon footprint.
The carbon footprint is a component of the ecological footprint that focuses on energy consumption, including natural gas, fossil-fuel electricity, and gasoline as well as food-and-water footprint. I can control my use of resources that affects the carbon footprint and use less energy when washing and drying clothes while using more energy-efficient bulbs. I have at times left plugged in electronics that are not in use, but will now seek to reduce unnecessary energy consumption and use minimal power equipment when necessary.
Political implications of my score
My score implies that sustainable use of resources should be used prioritized if I am to reduce my ecological footprint. Even before taking then to save the planet, it is necessary to raise awareness on ecological footprint. Typically, politicians focus on climate change mitigation efforts and citizens can urge a...