1. ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT

2. Are we getting too big for our house?

3. Who is getting what?
Global equity

4. If everyone lived like us we would need……

5. How big is a hectare?
One hectare

6. What about land for other species?
People vs. nature ?

7. Bioproductive Segments
67%
Low-Productivity
Ocean
Bioproductive Segments
Bioproductive segments
22% 4%
Biologically
Productive Ocean
11%
Deserts, Ice Caps and Barren Land
18%
Biologically Productive Land

8. Personal planetoid
Global average availability of bioproductive Land + Sea = ~1.9 global hectares/person

9. Fossil Fuel Build-up Waste Food Fibres
Footprint components
Fossil Fuel Build-up Waste Food Fibres

10. Discussion
All organisms on Earth use resources from the planet. (There are approximately 30 million species on the Earth)
What natural resources do we require for our needs?
Are these resources equally distributed around the World?

11. Only 25% of our planet is deemed productive.
According to you, what do you think is meant by an ecological footprint?