How does your ecological footprint affect earth?

Answer 1

It doesn't, the ecological footprint is a calculation of how hard you affect earth. Someone with a larger ecological footprint affects the Earth much more than someone with a smaller footprint because they use more of Earth's resources to maintain their lifestyle.

Luckely everyone's ecological footprint is different, because if everyone would affect the Earth as much as anyone in The west, the Earth would only be able to sustain 1 billion people, and were with 7 times more than that ;).

Answer 2

A carbon footprint is the amount of carbon a person or a process produces in one year.

The carbon is mostly in the form of carbon dioxide CO2 although there are other significant forms of carbon emitted.

CO2 is produced by burning fuel in a fire or in a gas cooker or a car, and those all generate CO2, but also included is the CO2 from electricity usage even though the CO2 is actually emitted not by the user but at the power plant (in that way power companies seek to shift responsibilty for their CO2 emissions).

Carbon gases in the atmosphere change the delicate balance between heat received from the Sun and heat radiated away again. This is believed by climate scientists to cause the Earth's temperature to rise to a harmful level eventually.