we're gonna need a bigger planet!

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/world/2002/disposable_planet/quiz/

how many planets would we need if everyone lived like you? i thought i was quite good but apparently if everyone lived like me we would need 1.7 planets!! waaah!

― katie (katie), Monday, 2 September 2002 11:19 (twenty-two years ago)

COR it automatically htmled it!

― katie (katie), Monday, 2 September 2002 11:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha I'd need 1.7 planets too so Katie for all your good living and all my scumlordery I'm not doing any more harm than you! At least according to this test! Which I don't believe! Oh well!

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 2 September 2002 11:24 (twenty-two years ago)

2.1 planets, hangs head in shame.

― stevo (stevo), Monday, 2 September 2002 11:24 (twenty-two years ago)

2.1 planets for me.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 2 September 2002 11:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Only 1.4 planets. In yer face.

― Graham (graham), Monday, 2 September 2002 11:25 (twenty-two years ago)

1.9 planets.

― Anna, Monday, 2 September 2002 11:33 (twenty-two years ago)

"If everyone lived like you, we would need 2.7 planets."

Cor blimey guvna! I thought I was a good Vegetarian environmentalist! (heh heh, 'mentalist') I guess all my car driving is what does me in. Dang nabbit!

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 2 September 2002 11:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I got 1.1 planets but surely that is mentalist! I never go in cars though so that might be it...

I bet SLEEPING is good for the environment, mmmm I must do some...

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 2 September 2002 11:39 (twenty-two years ago)

eek! 3.3 planets. it's accomodation and eating fancy foreign food that sent me way over the edge. back to cabbage and spuds for me.

― angela (angela), Monday, 2 September 2002 11:41 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.rocket.co.uk/rich/pioneer10-gs.gif

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 2 September 2002 11:45 (twenty-two years ago)

haha the guy looks like my old boss!! (titter ye not, i mean his face, ooh some right ones in tonite ect ect)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 2 September 2002 11:49 (twenty-two years ago)

1.2 planets, i am a very good girl indeed

― arantxa, Monday, 2 September 2002 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

i got 1.1 which is good but i should stop eating so much packaged food!!

― simon trife (simon_tr), Monday, 2 September 2002 12:05 (twenty-two years ago)

two point eight earths.

but it didn't factor in how much electrical power I use which, probably=YOTTAWATTS more than I should.

realistically, I'd estimate fifteen earths for-to-if everyone lived like me.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 2 September 2002 12:07 (twenty-two years ago)

4.2 planets! And I said I never go in cars or on motorbikes!

― zebedee, Monday, 2 September 2002 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

you are all fucking bourgeois scum!!

― simon trife (simon_tr), Monday, 2 September 2002 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

haha,

I just plugged in some CRAZY values, like. vegan, mostly not packaged/processed foods, live with seven people, in less than thirty square metres, green design and crap, never go in ANY fossil fueled vehicle etc. etc. result=one planet. time for a lifestyle change...

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 2 September 2002 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

4.5- WTF ??

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 2 September 2002 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

anthony stop choking my planet!!

― simon trife (simon_tr), Monday, 2 September 2002 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Being a brasilian from Recife(wich is very near from my town): 1.4 planets

Being a american from New York: 2.7

― Zac, The Black Power Ranger (vicc13), Monday, 2 September 2002 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

1.8 planets. Maybe its because I can stand up straight and turn around a full 360 degrees in my living quarters.

― brg30 (brg30), Monday, 2 September 2002 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

56 planet greenspuns! :(

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 2 September 2002 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

2.3 planets for me. I am not squatting and becoming a vegan!

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Monday, 2 September 2002 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

4.4! I am really good at this game!

― bnw (bnw), Monday, 2 September 2002 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

haha this is the "snake and snake 2 thread" for parasites!! (i got 2.1 btw)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 2 September 2002 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

3 planets=5.4 global hectares. It says the UK average is 5.3, so it's kind of surprising how low most of us are. Perhaps the shortage (I'm guessing) of heavy industry moguls who drive Rolls Royces on ILX accounts for this.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 2 September 2002 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

3.6. But it's less than the average for the Australia.. I say thangyew to my car with buggerall fuel efficiency..

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 2 September 2002 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

1.0 planet. Although i think this test is fairly dubious for various reasons; according to the test i am using 0.6 of a hectare of dry land by occasionally eating fish, despite the fact that the fish i eat is relatively unprocessed, locally sourced, and that I live in a country with a massive coastline and very strict rules to ensure sustainable fishing. Looks likes this test was corrupted with dodgy vegan politics. I'm also using up extra resources by not living in an eco-house, but think how much resources we would be using if we pulled down all the old houses to build eco-houses. Bizarrely i am not using any more resouces by living somewhere with a cold climate.

― hamish, Monday, 2 September 2002 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

of course, what this site fails to mention is that if it were possible for every human on earth to live like the average american the planet as a whole would be around 5-6 times richer and could afford just about anything.

the ridiculous impossibility of my above statement is probably equivalent to the idea that everyone could possibly live like any of us any time soon. 70% of Africans have never seen a telephone.

― Stuart, Monday, 2 September 2002 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Uh... that's 70% of rural Africans... which is still probably most Africans...

― Stuart, Monday, 2 September 2002 21:58 (twenty-two years ago)

i think the test is better as a general thought experiment than as a guide to helping you live sustainably (eg i cd cut my planetude-as-per-test down considerably by nailing up the door to my sitting room and my work room, and just living in my kitchen and bedroom, tho i think this wd have little genuine world impact) (i guess it wd reduce the amount of work i do)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 2 September 2002 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

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