Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth
Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth
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10.5070/g31710273
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1997-11
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Gene Bazan
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我们的生态足迹：减少人类对地球的影响由马西斯Wackernagel和威廉里斯审查基因巴赞可持续发展中心，宾夕法尼亚州立大学Wackernagel，马西斯和威廉里斯。我们的生态足迹：减少人类对地球的影响。Philadelphia，PA：New Society Publishers，1996. 160页。US $14.94 paper ISBN：0-86571-312-X.部分回收，无酸纸使用大豆基油墨。如果地球上的居民生活在美国的标准下，我们需要三个地球来支持我们我们中的许多人以前都听说过或读过类似的东西。我们的生态足迹为我们参与全球可持续发展辩论提供了一种图形化和定量化的严格方法：生态足迹分析。通过这种分析，我们可以确定我们行为的后果，并提出任何层面的解决方案：个人、家庭、社区、国家或世界。生态足迹分析测量特定人口以可持续方式生存所需的总土地面积。Wackernagel和Rees指出，美国人均占地11英亩，人均足迹最高，并建议这个数字应该接近每人6英亩。此外，美国面临着80%的生态赤字，这意味着我们正在借用我们孙子的遗产，并从世界其他地方征用土地。相比之下，每个欧洲人需要大约5英亩;然而，欧洲人面临更高的生态赤字，因为他们的土地面积较小。与其他关注化石燃料和矿物等不可再生能源消耗的方法不同，生态足迹分析认为，通往可持续发展的道路必须以可持续的做法为基础。因此，我们对化石燃料的使用必须有一个补偿性的水槽，那就是需要几英亩的林地来隔离化石燃料燃烧产生的碳（在我们的汽车、家庭供暖等中）。或者种植生物燃料所需的土地面积。例如，在比较我们每天乘汽车、公共汽车或自行车上下班时，并考虑到所有土地需求（例如，制造业用地
Review: Our Ecological Footprint: reducing human impact on the Earth. By Mathis Wackernagel and William Rees Reviewed by Gene Bazan Center for Sustainability, Pennsylvania State University Wackernagel, Mathis and William Rees. Our Ecological Footprint: reducing human impact on the Earth. Philadelphia, PA: New Society Publishers, 1996. 160 pp. US $14.94 paper ISBN: 0-86571-312-X. Partially recycled, acid-free paper using soy-based ink. If the earth's inhabitants were to live at the standard of the U.S., we would require three planet Earths to support us. Many of us have heard or read something like this before. Our Ecological Footprint provides a graphically compelling and quantitatively rigorous way for us to engage in the worldwide sustainability debate: Ecological Footprint analysis. Through this analysis we can determine the consequences of our behavior, and proposed solutions, at any level: individual, household, community, nation, or world. Ecological Footprint analysis measures the aggregate land area required for a given population to exist in a sustainable manner. Wackernagel and Rees note that at 11 acres per person, the U.S. has the highest per capita footprint and suggest that this number should be closer to 6 acres per person. Further, the U.S. faces an 80% ecological deficit, which means we are borrowing from our grandchildren's legacy, and expropriating land from elsewhere in the world. By contrast, each European requires around 5 acres; however, Europeans face higher ecological deficits because they have smaller land areas. Unlike other approaches, which focus on the depletion of non-renewables such as fossil fuel and minerals, Ecological Footprint analysis asserts that the road to sustainability must be paved with sustainable practices. Thus, our use of fossil fuel must have as a compensatory sink the acres of woodlot required to sequester the carbon from our combustion of fossil fuel (in our cars, home heating, etc.) or, alternatively, the acres of fields required to grow biofuel. For example, in comparing our daily commute by car, bus or bicycle, and considering all land requirements (e.g., manufacturing land to produce