A lighter footprint

By Angela Crocombe

Subjects: Weather, Earth Sciences, Geology, Meteorology & Climatology, Science, SCIENCE, NATURE, Australia, social life and customs, Sustainable living, Environmental Studies, Environmentalism

Description: A Ớ#́x02DC;We must seek to drastically reduce the heavy tread of our footprint upon the earth; otherwise, our children and our grandchildren will have very little hope of enjoying a habitable planet.a Ớ#́x2122; Angela Crocombe believes that global warming is the biggest problem facing humanity today, and that each of us has an essential part to play in finding a solution by reducing our physical impact on the planet. A Lighter Footprint uses a tool called the ecological footprint to help us do just that: it estimate the resources that an individual consumes, compared with the amount that nature can sustain. I.