Throughout the "Ecological Footprint Web Activity" you learn all about an ecological footprint. An ecological footprint is a measure of human demand on nature. Scientists keep track of ecological footprints by using technology to see how much an individual requires to produce all the resources it consumes and to absorb the waste materials it generates. If we keep using so many resources in a certain amount of time we wont have enough land and water to regenerate everything right of way. It would take years to get everything back.
When I was looking at the graph of Americas ecological footprint and the graph of Colombia's ecological footprint I noticed that America consumes way more then we produce, and that Colombia's bio-capacity and ecological footprint are low, which means that Colombia's sustainability will be way better then Americas in the future. When I calculated my own ecological footprint, it told me if everyone used the amount of resources I do, that it would take 5.8 planet earths to be able to generate all the waster materials. This activity has taught me that everyone in the US should take in a count that we don't have everlasting materials, we need to give them time to regenerate which means, we need to use less resources each year.
