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Ecological Footprint is correct!

Divided up evenly between all the world's inhabitants, each of us should average around 4.7 acres of land use to support our lifestyle. But Americans use far more than people in other countries.

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Ecological footprint (EF) analysis attempts to measure human demand on nature by comparing human consumption of natural resources with earth's capacity to regenerate them. The EF estimates the amount of biologically productive land and sea area needed to regenerate the resources humans consume, and to absorb and render harmless the corresponding waste.

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