Annie McAninch
Mr. Butera
AP Enivornmental

Ecological Footprint Summary

          An Ecological Footprint is a concept when humans use the earth's resources. An example would be using the Amazon rainforest's trees for paper.  I found out that humans don't really care about the environment because we use too much resources. I also found out that every environment is different in different countries. For example, Bolivia has a high rate of biocapacity which means they have a lot of plantations so they use a lot of pesticides. While in Japan, there's more cities and people, so more resources are going to get used up. The biocapacity in Japan is extremely low because there's not a lot of fields in Japan. Everything has a tipping point. A tipping point is when we use too much of our resources and then we can never get those resources back. I have learned that the environment is important and that we should all keep it clean.