The Ecological Footprint

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This paper examines how the general definition of an ecological footprint is the way a community, a nation, or an individual makes use of the ecological resources available to it and how much it taxes the currently existing resources of the present, as well as how this will impact the environmental future. It looks at how the footprint is usually deployed as a way of calculating the methods by which that entity makes use of the particular resources available to it on a collective or personal level and how it is important both as a predictive device of how the environment may be damaged by particular ways of life and as an important political tool for environmental organizations.

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"The typical lifestyles and luxuries of the average American, the notion of an ecological footprint suggests, does little to enhance the ecological qualities of life, and does much to cause the deterioration of the land. (Ecological Footprint Calculator, 1999) The notion of calculation poses the notion that the resources of the earth and every land pass are indeed finite, and cannot be squandered for only a relatively few members of the population of the earth, most of whom are concentrated in Western, industrialized nations such and most particularly in the United States. "

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