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Read about Bati's life and answer the questions. 

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Read about Bati's life and answer the questions. 

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1. Estimate how Bati's footprint would compare to your own.
2. Are you willing to make changes to your lifestyle to reduce your footprint? Explain honestly!

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1. Which fact was the most surprising to you and why?

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We've all heard stories about the foolish rich guy who blew his fortune on outlandish cars, homes and yachts. They usually follow a predictable path: He experiences a windfall of cash, spends beyond his means and inevitably plummets into bankruptcy.

This story is being played out on the biggest stage of all: Planet Earth. On the whole, humanity is currently on a natural resource spending binge. At the same time, more than a billion people go to bed hungry every night. Until we balance these inequities, we'll all suffer the consequences - from the price we pay for food to access to clean water.

If this doesn't grab your attention, here are seven facts about our growing appetite for Earth's finite resources that might:

1) In the next 40 years, we have to produce as much food as we have in the past 8,000. These daunting words were first spoken by former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman and similar statistics have recently been issued by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization. On a finite planet with dwindling land available on which to farm, scaling up food production at this rate requires doing more with less.

2) Americans waste enough food each year to fill 91 Empire State Buildings. Globally, we waste a third of all food produced. Eliminating waste would effectively halve the amount of new food needed by 2050. In developing regions, waste results from post-harvest losses and lack of infrastructure. In developed regions, too much food is wasted by the consumer. Portions are too big and we tend to throw away leftovers. "Sell by" doesn't equal "use by."

3) It took China just 12 years to double its per capita gross domestic product; it took India 17 years. Compare this to the United Kingdom (155 years) and the United States (53 years) and you start to grasp the unprecedented pace with which developing markets are growing. This is vital to address global hunger and poverty, but development must occur with an eye toward the future.

4) By 2050 about 70% of the world's population will live in cities, nearly as many people as are alive today. This exodus is largely occurring in less developed regions with a rapidly scaling middle class, placing further strain on resources with its additional buying power. The typical urbanite uses more water and consumes more meat-laden diets than their rural counterpart. At the same time, a third of the world's population is already affected by water scarcity for at least one month each year, and this figure is increasing.

5) Four crops - corn, soybeans, wheat and rice - comprise about 75% of the caloric content of food production worldwide. We place too much stock in just four commodities. With the ever-present threat of weather variability due to climate change, a single drought or extreme weather event can have drastic impacts on global food supplies, and consequently, the prices we pay. It's time to consider gleaning more calories from crops traditionally neglected by food producers like cassava, sweet potatoes and amaranth.

6) Farmed shrimp is the most valuable food commodity in the world. Aquaculture is the fastest growing food producing sector. More than half of the world's shrimp now comes from a farm. Considering the average annual per capita consumption of shrimp in the U.S. is around four pounds, and that 85 percent of the world's marine stocks are either fully exploited or overfished, responsible shrimp aquaculture can help save the world's oceans.

7) Globally, forests are lost at a rate of 36 football fields per minute. Growing demand for forest and agricultural products coupled with unsustainable practices and poor legal enforcement is at the root of this troubling trend. Forests are the lifeblood of our planet and nearly half of Earth's original forest cover has been lost. Initiatives like FSC and REDD are making strides by creating market incentives to conserve them.

Over the past few decades, humanity has consumed 50 percent more resources than Earth can provide. If we keep spending like this, by 2030, even two planets will not be enough. We can reverse this trend through market-based solutions, public policies and a shift in consumption patterns. Whether or not we stave off bankruptcy is in our hands.

What are your solutions? Share them with a comment or tweet us @BalanceWWF.

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We've all heard stories about the foolish rich guy who blew his fortune on outlandish cars, homes and yachts. They usually follow a predictable path: He experiences a windfall of cash, spends beyond his means and inevitably plummets into bankruptcy. This story is being played out on the biggest stage of all: Planet Earth.

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1. What activities impact your footprint the most? Did anything surprise you?
2. What can you realistically and willingly do to reduce your footprint?

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1. Bati has a small ecological footprint, he has to do a lot of work for himself as well as his parents and siblings.
2. I would make changes to my diet in order to make my footprint smaller.

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1. Bati has an absolutely tiny ecological footprint.
2. I don't think it would be that easy for me to change my life. I don't have that much choice in what I do.
3. Farmed shrimp is the most valuable food commodity in the world. I didn't think it would be that at all, I thought shrimp were common.
4. Food impacts my footprint the most because I eat about the same amount of meat and vegetables.
5. I really can't do anything.

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Bati’s footprint is much smaller than mine is. He does not drive a car and he does not eat meat at all.

Yes I would be able to make changes, I need to eat less meat and try to get a car with better gas mileage

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1. Bati’s footprint is much smaller than mine because he does not eat much meat (or much in general) and does not drive a car.
2. I’m would be willing to change some things but I probably wouldn’t because I don’t care that much. I don’t really need to go on a diet but there are places I could walk instead of drive.

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1. He would have a smaller footprint than me because he walks everywhere and doesn’t eat meat a lot and I eat meat everyday and drive everywhere.
2. I would be willing to edit my diet to make my footprint smaller.

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My footprint is bigger than Batis. He lives off the land and is unable to eat much meat because it is expensive

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1. Me and batí are very different in our very day life. He has no air conditioning or has fresh water. There is no heating for a fire to cook so him and his mom have to get it ready, and he walks everywhere he’s goes. For me I already water, heat, cooling, and a vehicle.

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2. Ofc I would like to make changes to reduce my foot print but I already do so much. I probably should reduce water intake.

3. It surprising that Farmed shrimp is the most valuable food commodity in the world. Aquaculture is the fastest growing food producing sector. More than half of the world’s shrimp now comes from a farm.
4. That I produce little footprint bc I dont eat meat and use diff was to save water or using energy.
5. I can be vegan and save water i use for my body ( so not a lot of showers)

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1.  Bati's Ecological Footprint is very different then mine. Bati wears wore out clothes that were passed down from his two older brothers because that is all they can afford. Bati also only eats meat rarely and his diet consists mostly of peas and corn which dramatically decreases his footprint.
2. I am willing to make changes in my lifestyle to reduce my ecological footprint. Seeing how Bati lives has tought us that everything we have today is not needed and we can all do more to reduce our footprints. To reduce my foot print I can eat less meat, and decrease the amount of water I use on an everyday basis.
3. In the United States we waste enough food each year to fill ninety one Empire State buildings. In American the portion sizes are much larger than any place around the world. Due to the larger portion sizes people are not eating all the food they are given and it ends up in the trash. This is horrible considering several countries around the world are struggling to feed there families any amount of food and in America we are just throwing it away.
4. Eating meat daily and traveling a lot dramatically increase my footprint. It surprised me that any amount of meat or animal product you eat can increase you footprint by a lot.
5. I can reduce my footprint realistically by taking shorter showers, turning off the water when it is not being used, unplugging devices when they are not being used, travel and drive less, and try to eat less meat and more vegetables and fruits.

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1.My footprint is bigger than Bati's. He lives off the land and is unable to eat much meat because it it is hard to get and has to travel everywhere on foot. I travel mostly by car, don't eat meat, and try to save energy as much as possible.
2.I already stopped eating meat to save the environment and the animals. We also carpool with our neighbors to and from school and we have a hybrid car. I am willing to take shorter showers even though being in the shower feels awesome.
3.The fact that shocked me the most was that Americans waste enough food every year to fill 91 Empire State Buildings. This had me shocked because I didn't know people were that cruel to waste something that gives you nutrients. This is one reason as to why I try to finish whatever is on my plate.
4.Driving in my two gas-fueled cars impacts my footprint because carbon is released into the atmosphere. Something that surprised me was that leaving your plugs in the electrical outlet uses power.
5.I can take shorter showers, unplug wires when I'm not using them, and go vegan to reduce my footprint.