2.6 hectares, requiring 1.4 planets. I got major reduction in points due to my transportation situation and living in NYC.
How many planets would we need if everyone on Earth lived like you?
For me it turns out that if all six billion of us lived like me, we'd need 4.9 Earths to feed, cloth, house, and transport all of us. Personally, I take up about 8.9 hectares (US average is 9.7, so I'm a little better than most of my countrymen--but not as good as I thought). "Worldwide, there exist 1.8 biologically productive global hectares per person."
What about you?
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Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
2.6 hectares, requiring 1.4 planets. I got major reduction in points due to my transportation situation and living in NYC.
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1.7 planets, and 3 hectors.
Edited to add that the average in Canada is 8.8 hectors.
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4.2 hectares SUCK IT
"mono has crazy flow and can rhyme words that shouldn't, like Eminem"
Drake Tungsten
"get contacts, get a haircut, get better clothes, and lose some weight"
Albert Speer
I take up 4.8 ha (the average ecological footprint for China is 1.5 ha). If everyone lived like me we'd need 2.7 planets.
Golfing since 67
...okay, no comment.Originally posted by monolith94
4.2 hectares SUCK IT
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This test is bullshit. I pretended to be a person from Malaysia who was vegan and lived an ABSOLUTELY GREEN life and it said we would need 1 planet!
I'm an environmentalist but even I have to say that this test is skewed.
"mono has crazy flow and can rhyme words that shouldn't, like Eminem"
Drake Tungsten
"get contacts, get a haircut, get better clothes, and lose some weight"
Albert Speer
So the Communist turns out to be the biggest burden on the planet so far... oh, the irony!
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Originally posted by monolith94
This test is bullshit. I pretended to be a person from Malaysia who was vegan and lived an ABSOLUTELY GREEN life and it said we would need 1 planet!
I'm an environmentalist but even I have to say that this test is skewed.You expect to be able to live in the void of space because you live green?
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Originally posted by Boris Godunov
So the Communist turns out to be the biggest burden on the planet so far... oh, the irony!
Che is all talk and no walk.
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The test is full of it.... 6 hectares and 3.3 planets. I do use more resources than my average countrymen, who use 4.7 each.
The test is skewed. No way I use less resources than Chegitz.
I did a re-calculation and my number over 7.6 ha. The problem is flying time. A trip from HK to Canada, and then back, can take more than 30 hours. If I flew more than 100 hours, the footprint jumps to more than 15 ha.
Golfing since 67
Originally posted by Osweld
I guess he was assuming that, since they gave you portions of planets beyond 1, they'd subdivide the first as well. But good point...
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Hmm, I filled in the thing twice with exactly the same answers, one for sweden and one ofr Los Angleles... Turned out that my footprint more than doubled just for moving... And my lifestyl is pretty much unchanged....
Biased test?Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aah...
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No Osweld
If I lived the way I polled, and EVERYONE did, then I'm sure we could support another few billion. Heck maybe more than that.
"mono has crazy flow and can rhyme words that shouldn't, like Eminem"
Drake Tungsten
"get contacts, get a haircut, get better clothes, and lose some weight"
Albert Speer
i'd need 3.
Category global hectares
Food 2.2
Mobility 0.1
Shelter 1.6
Goods/Services 1.5
Total Footprint 5.4
"I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it. We have to leave this place, I am almost happy here."
- Ender, from Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
monolith, I think Osweld is pointing out that the minimum you can get, no matter what, is 1 planet, since that's what we currently have to work with.
What was the hectare outcome for the Malaysian Green?
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The quiz is about how much larger the earth would have to be to support your life style globally. If everyone lived green, we could all easily fit on one planet and would not need to have any more space.Originally posted by monolith94
No Osweld
If I lived the way I polled, and EVERYONE did, then I'm sure we could support another few billion. Heck maybe more than that.
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Do It Ourselves
3.7 planets
Jesus rides beside me,
He never buys... any smokes.
The Replacements
Hmmm I can't remember...
Ah well I'm sure this whole ecology thing'll work out in the end.........
"mono has crazy flow and can rhyme words that shouldn't, like Eminem"
Drake Tungsten
"get contacts, get a haircut, get better clothes, and lose some weight"
Albert Speer
I got pissed after taking this BS test. Bah!If everyone lived like you, we would need 3.8 planets.
Category
global hectares
Food 1.6
Mobility 0.3
Shelter 2.8
Goods/Services 2.1
Total Footprint 6.8
In comparison, the average ecological footprint in your country is 9.7 global hectares per person.
Worldwide, there exist 1.8 biologically productive global hectares per person.
Despot-(1a) : a ruler with absolute power and authority (1b) : a person exercising power tyrannically
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"...but what sane person would move from Hawaii to Indiana?" -Dis
2.3 planets. Add Mars and the moon, and we can just about fit that many people.
I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site).
I rated 5.6 hectares which is only 60% of the U.S. average. I bike alot and I live in a city with excellent trolly service plus my car is a fuel efficient four cylinder.
It would take 3.1 earths for everyone to live like me. Fortunately, everyone doesn't live like me so I get to continue living the highlife.
"Our scientific power has out run out spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself." - Joseph Pulitzer
I got nailed on the apartment. I have a big 'un (1326 sq ft.). Plus I live in the hot, humid South.Originally posted by Boris Godunov
So the Communist turns out to be the biggest burden on the planet so far... oh, the irony!
Food 1.8
Mobility 0.2
Shelter 4
Goods/Services 2.9
Total Footprint 8.9
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
If everyone lived like you, we would need 1.7 planets.
Category
global hectares
Food 2.4
Mobility 0
Shelter 0.4
Goods/Services 0.3
Total Footprint 3.1
thanks
"Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi
Whomever made this quize....I oughta kick him/her in the groin for their stupidity. Once more:
Despot-(1a) : a ruler with absolute power and authority (1b) : a person exercising power tyrannically
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*****Citizen of the Hive****
"...but what sane person would move from Hawaii to Indiana?" -Dis
8.1 compared to an average of 9.7. Mostly because I don't drive.
Do not take anything I say seriously. It's just the Internet. It's not real life.
I agree. From a scientific stand point this test is designed to shock people and not to be accurate. The numbers are inflated. Plus it didn't take into account heating energy; I live in southern California and almost never use the heater or airconditioner (I love that ocean breeze
"Our scientific power has out run out spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself." - Joseph Pulitzer
Yah, but by the time we get around to colonizing Mars and the Moon, we'll need a lot more planets than that. Then where do we go?Originally posted by Skanky Burns
2.3 planets. Add Mars and the moon, and we can just about fit that many people.
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How? Did you hear something about Dubya and the fat one stepping down?Originally posted by monolith94
Ah well I'm sure this whole ecology thing'll work out in the end.........
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