Commentary On The Film 'Ecological Footprint'
“Ecological Footprint”
Imagine if you could see, piled up in front of you, all the things you will ever use and consume in your lifetime. How many milk will you drink? How many nappies will you use? How many words will you speak? How many tears will you cry? This film is the answer to these questions and others as it attempts to take the average footprint of each and uses two children to chart the resources that they will use and the waste they will produce over their coming lifetimes.
The film follows an American boy and girl from birth to death and shows their average consumptive footprint. For example, at the beginning we learn that the average baby requires 1,08 liters of crude oil and 4.5 trees just to make their diapers; and then
Imagine if you could see, piled up in front of you, all the things you will ever use and consume in your lifetime. How many milk will you drink? How many nappies will you use? How many words will you speak? How many tears will you cry? This film is the answer to these questions and others as it attempts to take the average footprint of each and uses two children to chart the resources that they will use and the waste they will produce over their coming lifetimes.
The film follows an American boy and girl from birth to death and shows their average consumptive footprint. For example, at the beginning we learn that the average baby requires 1,08 liters of crude oil and 4.5 trees just to make their diapers; and then