VCC236H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ecological Footprint, Greenwashing, Consumerism
29 Apr 2013
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An estimate of how much land and water resources are needed to meet the consumption level of an individual given info about their use of technology. In short, how a person"s lifestyle impacts the planet. To calculate an ecological footprint, the consumption of energy, biomass (food, fibre), building material, water and other resources are converted into a normalized measure of land area called global hectares" (gha). In na, we consume of the world"s globally. 5% of global popul, but we consume of the world"s resources. There is this division between us and nature. There are other people who say we are a part of nature. We are just smart animals who walk upright. Nature is both a) physical and material world b) a social construct. Taoist: humans are part of the natural world, but everything should be valued for its own sake not for what it does for us.
