oh, wah!! we leave a "footprint"..... so what! i long for the day that ALL of the idiotic whacko enviromental fanatics who hate the human race disappear!

Maybe if one half of the human population would breathing we could lower CO2 emissions.

The earth has cooled one degree in this past year. It took one hundred years for the temperature to rise one degree.

Mother Earth will take care of herself. We must utilize what she offers (oil, natural gas, etc.).

Is it fair to suggest that Obama will be the best environmental candidate because he has the greatest chance to gain the congressional support to pass the tough environmental laws we need to avert disaster?
www.envirobama.com

Why is it so hard for some people to understand that each one of us has an impact on our surroundings and on each other. I feel sorry for people like "John Doe" and Charles who only seem to know how to take. I want to know what they would do if one day they went to their tap and nothing came out or went to the grocery store and there was no food on the shelves? This planet doesn't have infinite resources. I guess in their selfishness the only consideration they make is that it won't occur in their lifetime.

Poor "John Doe "....Wah, wah...
Wonder if he happened to notice the AP story this weekend about the pharmacutical (sp) drugs found in our drinking water...
We do leave footprints, and they are not pretty.
I'm not an enviromental fanatic by any means, but I am at least aware of the damage that the human race is inflicting on itself!

Hi John, I’m just curious. Are you saying "who cares" just because you want to entertain yourself by provoking those that do… or do you really not care? It would take some harsh upbringing with neglect and lack of love, and some general inconsideration to make a person think that way. I would hope that you have enough of an open mind to really ask yourself why you feel the health of the earth doesn’t matter. Do you really feel that over consumption is a right you and us humans in general should have? If so, would you please let me know how you came to that conclusion? That question applies to everyone else on this forum that seems to be so repelled by the idea that taking more than you give and overburdening our earth is such a waste of time to reflect upon.

I’m not threatening or bashing your ideas and though, although they weren’t really presented clearly if at all.. I would just like to understand how you could hold the earth that gives you life in so much contempt.

Thanks.

John Doe, silly little John Doe... The moment a smart person sees that you've posted something with a fake name, we know.

It's gonna be okay. Nobody is going to hurt you.

You're not a bad person. It wasn't your fault, you were just a kid. Your parents just weren't ready.

Are we getting anywhere?

On a more serious note: Nature's destructive power is something we're familiar with. Nature finds a way to fix the problems we cause. That doesn't mean we should just do whatever we want. Some people go through life without any idea of what accountability is. Nature will deal with them as well.

It's just sad that they're not interested in evolving beyond thumbs.

All very good points, but if we focus on "John Doe" in this fight, we will not get anywhere. I, too, was disgusted to see that as the first comment, but we've got to focus our energy on and revel in the worth of this amazing documentary! It's the negativity and more often, the countering of the negativity that keeps us stuck in a place of frustration and hopelessness. So let's celebrate this film and leave all else to wither.

I think you guys need to realise that the film isn't about the Negative effects of humans on the earth. It looks at everything like, how many tears we cry, how many oranges we eat, how many books we read.
It's is a footprint, good or bad. You should do the research before you talk about something you know nothing of. It's a pretty cool film actually. They did it in the uk before here. Google it, channel 4.
Losers.

I dont really worry about the environment. The environment can take care of itself while I worry about my own life. I like to be wasteful.

Where can I find the list of musics in this show?

Picking Nitz...

Environlamo: "You should do the research before you talk about something you know nothing of."

"One" should-not you
and you ended with a preposition

It's a great documentary. The best part is... let's see-the soda cans? the ducks? maybe bananas? The car!

No-it's gotta be Elizabeth Vargas

Before I put in my two cents, you CAN end a sentence with a preposition. It is accepted grammar when arranging the sentence differently would become less clear or awkward.

If you read Jared Diamond's "Collapse" you would be able to directly tie in what this video's information and how important it is.

From the civilizations of the Mayans, the Hopi and today-- societies have risen and fallen by their ability to sustain the population. When we destroy and environment or significantly alter it to make it unable to yield enough food, water and resources the people suffer.

The planet Earth will live for billions of years with or without people. It will heal or adapt to what we have done to it. Life will go on-- but perhaps not human life.

Amazingly, unlike the Mayans, we have the knowledge to figure out how to adapt and manage our natural resources to keep this planet sustainable for humans. We are just unwilling to do so.

Stop making convenient disposable water bottles, and force us to reuse personal containers would eliminate nearly ten percent of our plastic waste.

Stop selling diapers that will have a longer life span than most uranium ores.

Put cooling and heating limiters on homes to limit power usage.

Subsidize personal solar and wind power instead of corn ethanol, which is highly-inefficient when you consider the overall costs on an economy and environment.

Seriously push to reduce the bovine population and consumption, which is the cause for most deforestation and greenhouse methane emmission.(I love steak, but I make it an occasional treat rather than a Big Mac everyday).

Finally-- look at real carbon footprinting. It takes less energy to get wine shipped from Europe to Pittsburgh, than it does trucked from Napa Valley, California, to Pittsburgh. It is cheaper to grow and ship tomatoes from Mexico than it normally is to buy it locally.

We need to work smarter-- not harder!!

Wow, It is wonderful to see all of us involved in an open discussion! This is a great reflection of our society upholding the basic elements upon which we were founded and shows the passion that still exists in our conscience. The human species has some challenges to consider for sure: How big can our population get before we blow a fuse? Is it too big already? As it grows and grows does our pace seem to accelerate and our perception of the passage of time seem to quicken? Is all the competion for global resources as dark as it seems? Or is there the glimmer of hope that humankind is actually having a healthy response and our collective thought will create ingenious solutions to preserve our species and the living planet along with it? We hope that will occur in our lifetimes, and soon, too, so that we can maybe breathe a sigh of relief and experience our world again like a child, in an unhurried pace. Are there perhaps new ways to create and dispense the energy and resources we need to run our society that will emerge as a result from this accelerated pace and increased competion? And, can we accomplish this mission without the cataclysm cycle becoming our reality? I believe that we can, and that it's in our clever nature to create a way for us to evolve a change, perhaps on the most basic level of our existence. Discussions like this that we participate in right now are unprecedented in our written history and may be a very important ingredient to us not only finding the answers, but asking more of the right questions.

I am very concerned about the footprint that we leave and I do my best to reduce and reuse. However, there is so much time spent talking about what "we" can do and ignoring the fact that big business is an integral part of the garbage in the world. It is truly amazing how much packing one item can be wrapped in. Businesses need to make a concerted effort to reduce. It enrages me that everytime you turn on the television there is a commercial advertising another disposable item being added to the world for our convenience. Are we so busy to use a rag for dusting instead of the swiffer things. How hard is it to put vegetables in a covered container instead of the new ziploc steam bags? It's just crazy, I mean we might actually burn more calories if we didn't have so many "convenient" items to use to get our lives in order. Come on just grab a real mop and bucket to do the floor people.

hi I loved the storys and stuff you posted.

While you're trying to lower the impact of your individual footprints on the Earth, the NUMBER of those footprints are growing to 7, 8, 9, 10 billion. So, all your efforts are confounded by the growing population.

How many people can the Earth support? The Pacific Ocean and its wildlife are already choking on megatons of plastic garbage produced by more people every day. So, either we reduce the human population through family planning programs Worldwide, recycle 100% of all waste and garbage, or go extinct. The tipping point has arrived.

It's true that every one of us has an impact about the environment and i believe that we should try to moderate this impact , we should try to improve our lives being more responsable in this problem.Words doesn't help much.
'Mother Earth' take care of us, why we should not take care of her?

Here's an easy fix: STOP EATING ANIMALS. Take that market away, I'll let you figure out just how effective it is. You'll be surprised.

Wow! How amazing! Never would have thought it. Obvious facts dressed up as journalism. But where is what really counts: the analysis of how immoral and repulsive this consumerism is, a consumerism brought to perfection in the country with the highest rate of obesity in the world? And the one country that outstrips all others in the quantity per head of environmental destruction.
I hope this program does not just gawp at the quantities and that Nat Geo has had the guts to make a stand on how disgusting this behaviour is. And by the way: only a tiny fraction of the world consumes these repuslive quantities: the USA. Not 'the average person'. Get some perspective on the planet guys.

Wow! How amazing! Never would have thought it. Obvious facts dressed up as journalism. But where is what really counts: the analysis of how immoral and repulsive this consumerism is, a consumerism brought to perfection in the country with the highest rate of obesity in the world? And the one country that outstrips all others in the quantity per head of environmental destruction.
I hope this program does not just gawp at the quantities and that Nat Geo has had the guts to make a stand on how disgusting this behaviour is. And by the way: only a tiny fraction of the world consumes these repuslive quantities: the USA. Not 'the average person'. Get some perspective on the planet guys.

This is an unfair judgement on those of us who do not fit the average. I am allergic to all dairy products and do not eat them. I don't like bread much and don't eat hamburgers or french fries (I'm vegan). It would be nice if you factored in some consideration for those us who don't fit your dire predictions.

Yes, It is unfair and it would be wonderful if everyone were like you Kate. But admit, the majority - not only of americans - eat crap and buy useless stuff. We have to be more selective, because we are what we consume.

" O planeta como um cachorro eu vejo... se ele não aguenta mais as pulgas se livra delas num saculejo " Raul Seixas

When you wring all of the emotion out of the subject you are left with only fact.
While life may indeed be common throughout the universe, humans exist under a unique, and rare, set of circumstances.
Change those circumstances enough and the human race disappears. Examples abound if we but look.
Truly, there are none so blind as those who will not see.

GO GREEN!
Buy a lot of green stuff!
Buy Buy Buy!

It's funny how our "footprint" will now have a bunch of environmental sustainable junk added to it.

Try and remember why we have such a big footprint...bcs we can't seem to reduce or reuse. Recycling is important too, but not AS important as just reducing.

It's crazy to me that people buy fast food, cutting edge high tech junk, disposable cleaning products, and tons of plastic/petrolium based products...then go online and complain that somebody has to do something about the environment.

Face it - it isn't just conservative oil barrons who are to blame...

It's the Jones's and everyone out there trying to keep up with them.

Did you buy a new car, new house, new cell phone, new computer, new hdtv, or anything that will end up in storage?

Does it take you longer than 10 minutes to drive to work or a grocery store?

think about it.

Remember Easter Island..Limited resources in a closed envirnoment. This will be the fate of the human race if we do not stop killing our planet.

Check out my post about "Human Footprint" at redeyechicago.com/practicallygreen

The fact of the matter is that waste should not solely be blamed on the consumer. Instead, go to the source. Who created these pollutant hazards? The manufacturers.

We, the consumer, will use the products which are available to us.

Question: What If all that was available to consumers was environmentally friendly products? This discussion wouldn't exist. This show "Human Footprint" wouldn't even exist. A lot of people would be out of a job.

If more companies and manufacturers created something good for the planet, there would be less hazard waste. I think everyone would like a pure clean environment for our future generations to come.

Think about it. It's not the consumer who is at fault, It's the manufacturer.

holy _ _ _ _ I am so sorry two people concieved me with out my permission I feel sorry for being a human. or maybe we are witnessing the rise of big electricity...big piles of batteries leaking fluids all over drilling for more copper for windings more oil to produce the light weight plastic that batteries can haul.etc.etc.
did you know NBC is owned by General electric and that democrates have finally found a way to gain power..1st makes us feel bad for being alive then say its ok we will manage every aspect of your lives for you so you can be green, really skinny over taxed(so you won't have money to spend on fun that requires more consumption) wake up we need 16% oxygen to breath when we get below that we die off earth recovers or we all die from cancer from the sun.

(This is a repost, since, for some odd reason, it was not posted the first time.)

The only comments above that have made any sense (barring any punctuation or spelling errors that bugs nitpickers so much) are those given by John Doe and Charles in the first two posts. At the very least they are a breath of fresh air from the usual Hate-America-First/Humans-Are-Evil-Carbon-Units-Infesting-the-Earth drones who repeat the BS Al Gore made so popular with his Powerpoint propaganda presentation.

If you don't care about your own personal freedom, like the freedom to determine the temperature of your own home, or the freedom to eat meat, or the freedom to have children, or the freedom to go anywhere in your own country as you desire, when you desire and by whatever means you find convenient, or the freedom to make comments on sites like this (and to have sites like this), or the freedom of when to get married and to whom, or the freedom of worship that you now enjoy, or the freedom of speech and the press, or the freedom of free elections, or the freedom of living your own life any damn way you please (as you can now), or any of the other myriad of freedoms we take so much for granted that we have become blind to them, then please, carry on. You have my sympathies.

By the way, as I'm sure all of you know, China has now surpassed the U.S. with it's Carbon emissions and is the biggest emitter and polluter on the planet. Why don't you guys smarten up, leave countries that have environmental and pollution protection laws and recycling/reducing programs already in place, and go over there and complain? Let's see you make a real impact on the pollution of the planet by attacking the country that has ZERO environmental/pollution laws in place and has no plans for any in the future. They are exempt from the Kyoto treaty, which, even if it was adhered to 100% by all signatory countries immediately, would have zero percent effect on the temperature of the planet. (Kyoto, btw, is also only 1 of 36 such steps in place to save the planet from the evil human race). If you really believe that the Chinese will start to reduce their unrestrained pollution once they have arrived at some vague point in some distant future from whatever it is that is preventing them from reducing now, then you have my pity. They will be the ones driving all the cars, buying all the cell phones, consuming all the disposable stuff the Greens despise so much, using up all the oil and natural gas (while running huge industrial complexes providing non-stop polluting of the planet without restraint or remorse to boot), while our western non-communist society will voluntarily have reduced itself to the level of a 3rd-world mud-hut existence. Think about it. They're thumbing their noses at environmental responsibility RIGHT NOW, at the very moment (during this current rapid industrial expansion and growth process) that environmental responsibility would be the cheapest and most effective time to be implemented. Something is wrong with this picture.

Oh, and one final thing. Yes, you will be the ones reducing, recycling, skipping meals, getting rid of your cars, not using your own country's plentiful and cheap environmental resources or parks or waterways, etc., etc., etc. But that will not be the case for the elite, like Al Gore, and the ultra-rich (many of whom, like Ted Turner, are LIBERAL capitalists) and, of course, the UN, and the officials of whatever government happens to be in power. Once in a while, in the not-so-distant-future, when you look up from your crowded, stinking, mosquito-infested mud hut that has no running water, no toilets, and no electricity (because it's ultimately good for the environment, we are told), while you're trying to start a fire using cow dung (like in India), look up into the sky at the planes flying overhead or look at the cars driven by the elite. And then look at the empty, rock-strewn farmfields where so much food once used to be grown, as you settle for your meagre United Nations' ration of a few handfuls of rice and dried cheese that you and your family have been alloted for the day. Look up, and remember.

what is the foot-print of other animals in this world? how much solid waste does an elephant produce in its lifetime? how many endangered zebras does a lion kill in her lifetime?

what is the foot-print of other animals in this world? how much solid waste does an elephant produce in its lifetime? how many endangered zebras does a lion kill in her lifetime?

what is the foot-print of other animals in this world? how much solid waste does an elephant produce in its lifetime? how many endangered zebras does a lion kill in her lifetime?

The real bottom line problem is that there are too many people in this world for the resources we have. Solve this problem and you solve all problems. Of course, this will never be done.

The real bottom line problem is that there are too many people in this world for the resources we have. Solve this problem and you solve all problems. Of course, this will never be done.

The Last Dance

Earth Day, April 22
10 AM - 6 PM
New Federal Building Plaza
7th and Mission Street, San Francisco

The ecological footprints of some 45 nations
will be arranged on the plaza.
Each footprint will be cut from recycled carpet
padding that is composed of post-consumer
mixed foams and fibers to a size
representing the quantity of resources
used by that country.

Inspired by dance instruction charts, the footprints
will exemplify the disparity, hopefully,
in a fun way; that we are all need to watch our steps
and that we all are dancing together.
It will show that we are all partners on this planet but,
some of us have way bigger feet.

The Atonal Optimists, an eccentric and eclectic
musical ensemble, will play from 11:30- 1:30 PM.
Allison Quaid from Creative Community Catalysts
will be giving tips on how to reduce ones footprint.

Cha-cha? The Hustle? Tango, anyone?

All are welcome to come and tap their toes
and join in the dance.

Judith Selby Lang
judith@sfelectricworks.com

Special thanks to the Global Footprint Network for help
in calculating the measurements by the foot.

I'm fascinated by the wide range of responses/reactions in this discussion. We have the freedom to change our behavior--or not. To be threatened by others who think differently, or who are telling us something we don't want to know is obviously the first thing that needs to change. When our thinking changes, our behavior will change. I am especially struck by "environlamo"'s statement that "the environment can take care of itself and I'll worry about my own life" -- as if there is a difference between the two. Everything in the universe is connected, and to believe otherwise generally ends in pain for the one who has this dualistic view. And, yes, the environment (of which we are all a part) WILL take care of itself, and we may disappear as a species. If the time of the human race comes to an end, so be it. What's not okay with me is if humans die out in a fog of denial and willful ignorance. The alarm is going off, it's time to wake up, let's quit hitting the snooze button.

wow ngc has done it agian this is by far the best program ever to make people open their eyes to what we are doing to this planet this program make us wonder what kind of place we will leave to our great granchildren they may look back in history and say there right there is where it all went bad. there might just be us here and now

I think it's great to get people thinking about the impact they are making on our environment, but how much waste was generated and energy expended to create this visual representation of the human footprint.

Seems a bit hypocritical, but maybe there is a good answer that I am unaware of.

I agree with Skwirl, what a load of crap to waste resources to make a point about wasting resources. The issue is not the footprint anyway, it is carbon cycling and our failure to balance the carbon cycle at a sustainable level. That is supply side, not demand side. It is also the inappropriate capital valuation of natural resources which we assume and act as if they are "free" and that the exploitation of that resource until it is gone is our entitlement. People will continue to consume, but we are not separate from the ecology of the planet. When we plunder to sustain the unsustainable, the consequence will always be the same.

I am a civil engineer working in the environmental field for over 20 years in California.

Though it claims to be the first, I've seen similar studies that show "human impact" on the environment. Regardless, shows like these are usually presented 1 of 2 ways: As educational "factoids" that present the information and help demonstrate why conservation can help reduce impacts on the environment; or as propaganda. I'm really hoping this comes out like the former (which can be a really fun way to educate children) and not like the latter. My fear is that this kind of presentation with "visual" guides is really a way to exaggerate the consumption of people, and therefore skew their thinking. It turns, what really should be common-sense information, into a guilt-ridden, anti-human rant.

For example, who is surprised we consume 30,000 gallons of water over a lifetime? Does the program then show how many acre-feet of clean water fell from the sky during that time? How that rainwater is stored, cleaned and transported to your faucet?

No. Of course not. But nothing is static in this world. To me, this comes across in an almost juvenile, alarmist manner. The end result is that people feel guilty for their consumption (and you shouldn't); feel as if "something needs to be done" (and conservation is really what we're talking about); and ironically, ends up being anti-human. I'm not surprised that we're starting to see posts that call for population control or eliminating people to solve the problem. It's this kind of whacked out thinking that gives terrorist organizations like ELF justification to their twisted minds that blowing up a car dealership or burning down a housing development will "save the world".

Love your country. The USA is one of the most environmentally conscience countries in the world.

Does everyone really think it's SO BAD to encourage humans to stop being such greedy, hoarding consumers and possibly share the wealth of the land with everyone who is on this planet? Geez, I mean lighten up; why are humans so sensitive and synical about this issue? Is environmental sustainability really such a threat to our lifestyle? Oh boy, how terrifically horrible that we should have to refill our Nalgene bottle with water or unplug the toaster before we leave in the morning. Yeah. What a great compromise and inconvenience.

It is unavoidable to stop consuming or to stop breathing as someone else sggested.. What we can do is recycle garbage and use it as fertilizers and alternate sources of energy such as ethanol and methane gas and cremate the rest cooling off the exaust. Our economy, jobs etc... depend on those production iniciatives.

dangs!!! quit reading stuff on the internets! your computer is using energy and warming the globes!!!

I find it funny how extreme and polarized the views are on both sides. Environmental do gooders have goofed up our forests and cause the flash fire issues. Right now everyone is going crazy of Polar bears because they are cute, ignoring the fact that they are over populated far beyond what nature intended. And why do we pretend that nothing that comes from the earth is renewable? Like the arguments about paper and trees. No one mentions that most wood products in the US and Europe come form farmed (Planted) fast growing trees not from old growth forests. Or that much of what we consume and the waste we send to landfills came from the earth to begin with.

Yes we must learn to be better stewards of our planet, yes we must develop technologies and habits that are more energy and waste effective, yes we need to reduce pollution but not at the expense of freedom, jobs, or access to our world. We need balance, fairness, and consideration for those who do not believe the same things as ourselves. Education is key, legislation, law suits, and extremism only makes matters worse, more expensive, and polarizing.

I laugh at the over population rhetoric on the blog. That was a scam of the 60s and proven time and again to have no scientific value. The earth can sustain us just fine and many many more. It's not an issue of too many it's and issue of what we do with what we have. Research has proven that the US agricultural production could feed the entire planet alone if it was required.

Politics, greed, war, UN and corporate interference, wasted energy, etc. These are the things that cause most famine, starvation, suffering, and wastefulness. We can sustain the people here if we wished, the powers that be could not function in a world that actually wanted to feed everyone, provide shelter, or make greater use of low cost, highly effective energy sources and technologies. And let us not forget Hollywood has effectively convinced the US population that one of the best energy sources we have is too scary to use, Nuclear power. France is a prime example of a country that can reduce it's carbon footprint by using this energy and then disposing of the waste back where they dug it up from for future generations to figure out how to harness the remaining energy again.

The US has significant, in fact huge deposits of naturally occurring radioactive materials (Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, New Mexico to name a few) easily removed, used and the returned where it came form after the fuel is spent. There is no damage to the environment but we have falsely taught ourselves to be terrified of this energy most of the rest of the industrialized world uses without issue.

The problem is over population and greed. Especialy in the U.S. where the more we have the Biger the better we think it is, and quite honestly it's "discusting".. What we need is education and global birth control, to better improve the global quality of life...
MY grand father who was Italian, who drained the rain water from his storm drains on the side of his house into huge three barrels that he used to water his vegetables. Alway's used to say if every one in china wanted to build a brick house, there wouldn't be enough bricks in the world.. An what's happen now...
THis all being caused by our arrogance.. Look who we elected as president twice..
DOn't expect the U.S. to set the standerd for China..
"whose going to LIsten"

Not everyone can be a vegetarian! Especially women who lose blood every month and who are at high risk of being anemic. Red meat (along with clams and mussels) is one of the best sources of heme iron--the most absorbable kind for the human body. I tried being a vegetarian and almost killed myself! My eyesight worsened, my mental capacity diminished, and it took longer for injuries to heal. My physical condition was so bad I could not cycle a mile (while three years prior I had done a Boston-to-New York AIDs Ride).

Instead of making blanket statements about how great it is not to eat red meat and putting people's health at risk, I think its more important to focus on plastic--which does not biodegrade and which is poisoning the oceans and wildlife. It is mind boggling that more people are not focusing on the North Pacific Garbage Patch (the North Pacific Gyre) where the concentration of plastic particles is 6x greater than plankton. That is scarier than me eating red meat! Also, how many of us consume imported products? Buying local is a safer alternative for me than not eating red meat.

I do not have the national geographic channel. Can I see this episode on the internet?

I could not finish watching this program. It was absolutely disgusting to watch thousands tons of food being destroyed and wasted.

What good does this do? How does it benefit anyone? Did anyone stop and think that the poor could have been fed with the wasted food?

National Geographic is a disgusting bunch of fat hypocrites!

Consumption is so ramprant why is anyone having children to make matters worst? They have a hopless future.

I say that if you really wanna start taking care of the planet, the first thing ppl should do is learn to recycle. Its very simple.. just filter what you will throw out in the trash. Many things can be reused or disposed of in the proper manner instead of landfills.. The oil we use and the garbage we toss into landfills will always be there... Extreme measures such as using nuclear energy and solar power would help to decrease our oil usage but the price of that is we would need to stop using what we currently have in the stupidest ways... Overall, I think that if more people just got a lil bit extra home training and some better schooling, then we can help the planet a lil more only because people are aware of it.

One more thing, even to the people that disagree with the whole planet saving thing... there can be 1 million of you that dont care, but at least there are many of us that care to do something.. I'm positive that you wouldn't go out of your way to just over consume and run your car and throw tons of oil into sewers because it costs money to do it =)
you can only do so much.. eventually, us green folk will win!!

lower the housing and rent near where i work and i will live closer,until then I will not live under an overpass with my two kids...it sounds like most of you hate humans..would you prefer disease to lower the numbers and what if you were one of the diseased? should we start shooting people what if you were one of the ones no no what if someone you loved were exterminated to lower the numbers. it isn't only smokes or alchohol that gives cancer you can just get it. I dare any who posted here to come down with cancer and refuse treatment. it sounds like you all are still in highschool drinking kool aid

oh p.s. end birth right citizenship and immigration and the u.s. can be cleaner. I wonder if the tree hugging hippies want to send the mexicans back, after all they come here and buy the first gross polluter i got rid of..on the may 2006 no mexican day traffic was almost nill.

I would like to comment on the show, "the human foot print", as my family and I watched it we came to realize that this is a great program in thoery but in its execution there was unnecessary amount of food wasted. Especially the eggs we found most disturbing, the amount could have been shown without them being all broken, the eggs among other food that was wasted could have been food donated to shelters and other such organizations where a starving individual could have had a meal for more than a week. As for the NG slogan of "teaching people how to prserve and save and help our planet", this was a terrible way of showing it.

As I am watching the show, I am concerned about what has happened to all the items used to display what we use in our lifetimes. What happened to all the bread and milk used for example on the first show? In addition, I was appauled to see that over 18,000 eggs were wasted just to prove a visual point. Doesn't doing that seem hypocritical in light of the point the show was trying to make?