Re: [GBlist] house thoughts

["clark ellison" <cellison1@austin.rr.com>]

> -the average Canadian uses a 20 acre ecological footprint-20 football
fields
> -the average American uses 33% more
> -the average Italian uses 20% less
> Nature provides an average of 5 acres


Well, I will file this with the statement that 87% of all people using
statistics make them up.

Nature provides an average of 5 acres  When was this accurate? With the
increasing population how can this be a statement that holds true today. How
is the land divided? How is the calculation made, are we including the land
under the sea and the land that is to high up in the mountains to utilize?
Basically if you have taken the time to compile the information from which
you came up with the percentages, a lot of it is old and no longer valid.
It has always amazed me that the Egyptians new the circumference of the
world before it was known that the world is round. And that men have killed
each other because they did not believe it. And still  we argue about
something with facts that are changing so fast and are adjustable to prove
what ever point we wish.

In case we forgot, What are we including in the formula to determine the
square footage we are discussing?






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