The Cultural Observer

The Cultural Observer is a blog established for the purpose of providing an on-line platform where students of Intercultural Communication at School of Education and Communication, University of Algarve, Portugal, have the opportunity to express their observations and reflections about differences between various cultures and subcultures. The subject is being attended by both Portuguese and Erasmus students which makes the discussion even more interesting and literally intercultural.

Tuesday, 25 November 2014

If everyone consumed like the Flemish, there would be 5 of our worlds needed

The Flemish have a medium ecological footprint of 9 hectares, 40% more than in 2010. This increase of 40% is due to the possibility of having more detailed studies made about it, and so they are getting better at reaching the truth.

Belgium is doing worse in decreasing their ecological footprint than their neigbour countries. French people have 5,2 hectares, Germans 6,1 hectares, Netherlanders 6,7 hectares and the Brittish 5,9. This is mostly because buildings in Flanders are older and because they drive their cars with no one with them to work. Flemish eat diferente too, they consume a lot of vegetable oils and eat a lot of fish with high ecological footprints.

I am curious about how this is in other countries too, so feel free to comment.

Naomi Seys

1 comment:

Daira BērtuleMonday, 1 December 2014 at 02:20:00 WET
Latvia's Ecological Footprint is 3.95 global hectares per capita, what doesn't suprise me, because I think we are quite nature friendly.
I found a test, where I can calculate my Ecological Footprint and it's 2 hectares per capita. I don't know if I can believe this :D
However, I think everyone should start with him/herself, only then something can change in the big picture.
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