Ecological Footprint Survey

Doing the survey I found there was one issue with it all, some of the questions that were asked could be answered very inaccurately. No one really knows how many km they drive, fly or catch public transport on, and the problem was that the answers really changed the outcome of your ecological foot print. The other issue that I had in answering some of the questions was that i didn't know the size of the property that my house is on, which like the travel question I had to guess.

The other thing that bugged me was when completing the survey I was told that if everyone on earth lived like me we would need 5.08 earths, What does that mean? It really isn't the most descriptive or informative result.

Although it was interesting to know how my footprint stacked up to the average of Australia I really didn't find the survey helpful in makeing any changes to my lifestyle. It did make me think a little that how we live in Australia can affect the world and that by our lifestyle we would need many more worlds that what we have to sustain our lifestyles. It was a little bit of a wake up call to see that to make things better we really need to reduce our damage from the way we live