Visualizing your Human Footprint
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After watching a special on the National Geographic Channel called Human Footprint , I began to think about what it truly means to be a “consumer.” Being a consumer means that we are constantly consuming resources, and as we consume, we leave behind enormous amounts of waste.
On the program, the Human Footprint team very artistically and accurately represents the amounts of food, energy, water and other natural resources we, as individuals, will consume in our lifetime (based on the U.S. average for one lifetime).
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