Are You Sustainable?
Consumer Consequences is an online tool where users can enter data about their living, work, travel, energy, and eating patterns, and then see how many earths are be needed to sustain that lifestyle if everyone else on the planet did the same thing.
It’s billed as a game but the results are usually less than fun to read.
Consumer Consequences will ask you a series of questions about your lifestyle, and as you play, it will show you how many “Earths” of natural resources it would take to sustain all 6.6 billion humans… if everyone lived like you.
Keep an eye on the background graphics of your in-game world as you play. They’ll slide across the screen like theater scrims as you answer questions to illustrate what your “world” of consumption would look like. They’ll reflect the waste you produce… the infrastructure (commercial, residential, industrial and transportation) you require… the energy (fossil, nuclear, and renewable) you consume… and how your lifestyle impinges on forests and other undeveloped land.
Nathan was thinking green at 9:08 AM on October 1, 2007
Comments are sorta kinda broken right now. We're working on it but to save energy can only work in daytime when solar system is at peak performance.
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