Ecological footprints whats your say on it?

Question

Many people use up the resources that we have they are demanding land and its Ecological footprint is reallly a soulution but now its becoming a problem.Suddenly we will have no resources left and we will have a major problem.Al gore talked allot about this in his video inconvinient truth those were his words and what he thinks about global warming.Now i wanna know what your say on Ecological footprints.

Answer 1

There is defiantly a crisis in our future if we continue at our current course. The US consumes so much of the worlds resources that it simply isn't possible for everyone to live the same as we do. With more and more countries becoming industrialized and world population on the increase something will have to give sooner or later. The major questions are when, and what can we do to prevent a major crisis?

I do not think humans of the 21st century have the political will to do what is necessary to become sustainable. It's likely that there will be major problems in our future when there simply isn't enough resources to go around. I am not going to guess about when; if you check online you can probably find anything from next week to next millennium. The point is that we consume resources with rates and methods that are not sustainable and if that does not change, then the resources will run out.

Answer 2

Guess I look at it in a simplistic way...
The majority of us in this patriarchal, western, '1st world', industrial, modern society are very spoiled brats.
Most of us are given every opportunity, luxury (clean, hot water for one) and benefit of being born 'here' or lucky enough to move 'here' (wherever that is NA, Europe, Australia...)
"We" don't have to do anything for ourselves (we can buy the item or service), and what ever mess or problem we have it's someone else's job (like mom in the household).

Here's where the "Ecological footprints" come in...
People either aren't educated about it, ignore it (have their blinders on because they are too busy or whatever), are defiant (weird subject to rebel against), lazy (someone else will 'take care of it'), or really don't give a darn ("I'm not going to live forever it's someone else's problem).

In my way I can illustrate it by using a fair, festival or some other gathering like a concert as an example...
After the event people get up and leave.... what's left?
Food wrappers, plastic utensils, cups, cigarette packs, cans, water bottles, paper napkins, plastic plates or some other one use item.
How many people hold on to their garbage to dispose of 'properly'? How many people think about using items in recyclable containers and put them in the proper container?
A very small percentage.

The majority think...
"Oh someone gets paid to clean up after us, give them work"... I think they have enough to do.
"They'll sort the garbage"... they don't, it all goes to the landfill.
"There isn't a garbage container every 5 feet, it's their fault"... so walk 10.
People don't think garbage will blow around either, contaminating green spaces.
This can be magnified in my mind to represent what people are doing all over the place all the time....
This is our garbage & pollution footprint with is not that different from the forest clear-cutting, industrial farming, suburban areas spreading across the view or the raping of the landscape for minerals and other finite resources.
It all comes down to our consumption 'demands'.

We all need to go back to basics and leave all the stresses behind of our modern mess we've become accustomed to.

That my say, thanks for the opportunity

Answer 3

the problem is carrying capacity, scientists warned that we exceeded the earth's carrying capacity long ago, but people who do not wish to change their consumption habits, or are to irresponsible to do what is best for generations to come denounce that as they do everything else as fascism or socilaist conspiracy.