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• Ecological footprint: measures how much a person/group measured in land (hectare)

  • Factors in food production, raw materials, housing, electricity production (coal, gas, solar, wind, ect.)
• Carbon footprint: measured in tons of CO2 produced per year
• Factors that increase footprint:

  • Affluence
  • Meat consumption
  • Fossil Fuel usage
• Factors that decrease footprint:

  • Renewable energy use
  • public transport
  • plant-based diet
  • less consumption, travel, and energy use