There’s a very interesting site that allows you to calculate your ecological footprint. While the information on how much of the Earth we suck up is rather sobering, i found out i only equal about .5 of a normal ecology hogging American! Go me!!! Now, if we eliminated half the world’s population and the rest of them only took up as much space as i do, we’d be on the right track.
[…] And more: food from afar may be more energy efficient than locally grown – which totally countermands that annoying geological footprint thing that has been a link of the week somewhere on the internet every damn week since I posted it in 2000. And: A cat that infallibly senses death. Don’t cats lead souls to the afterlife. […]