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The correlation between ecological awareness and ecological damage is really striking.
And it's paralleled at the individual level. People who see themselves as green typically have larger footprints than those who don't - for the simple reason that green-mindedness is correlated with wealth, which is is correlated with damaging habits such as meat diets and flying.
Mexico, Ukraine, and Brazil are looking good/not-as-bad-as-some-others.
the second map, with surplus/deficit, is interesting. australia is one of the worst offenders per capita but the land is also one of the biggest carbon sinks apparently.
Mongolia as well. Look at the difference!
Interesting that Poland is significantly better than Austria.
Have you lived in Austria? I’d never seen more gas plants in my life…
What they doin in Mongolia?
And Estonia?
Estonia at least is richer than it used to be so probably importing a lot while growing, and that puts it in negative? While sharing our Nordics wasteful way of life of flying to holidays and eating tons of beef and driving everywhere.
But what are they doing in Mongolia? Perhaps it's growing as well, and similar stuff happening? Importing a ton? Idk.
Somehow China despite being one of the largest populations and possibly the biggest manufacturers in the world has a smaller foot print than Switzerland.
Numbers are given in global hectares per capita
It's per capita.
This seems to be per person