{"id":6809,"date":"2016-11-14T07:55:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T07:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6809"},"modified":"2016-11-14T07:55:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T07:55:35","slug":"pity-the-poor-swedes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2016\/11\/14\/pity-the-poor-swedes\/","title":{"rendered":"Pity the poor Swedes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2016\/11\/03\/good-news-for-environmental-educators-well-sort-of\/\">wrote<\/a> about the summary <a href=\"http:\/\/awsassets.panda.org\/downloads\/lpr_living_planet_report_2016_summary.pdf\">report<\/a> of the\u00a0Living Planet Index last week\u00a0and thought it much less apocalyptic than the Guardian headline writers. \u00a0It is, of course, full of facts 'n' figures which make absorbing reading. \u00a0There are a few surprises as well. \u00a0I was struck by Figure 10 which shows the average ecological footprint in global hectares per person per country, in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The Americans and Australians come out of this badly, of course. \u00a0Their figures are over 7\u00a0global hectares per person. \u00a0Even the saintly Canadians are at this level, along with the\u00a0Belgians (must be all that hot air coming out of the EU HQ). \u00a0But so are the Swedes. \u00a0The Swedes! \u00a0 \u00a0T H E \u00a0S W E D E S \u00a0! !<\/p>\n<p>And where is the UK? \u00a0 Well, our levels are between 3.5 and 5.25 gha \/ person. \u00a0Some might call that\u00a0a result \u2013 although the difference between 3.6 and 5.2 is considerable, as is the difference between 3.6 and 1.0. \u00a0Still, we're ahead of the Finns, Germans, Danes and Irish (all of whom do as badly\u00a0as the Saudis and the Russians).<\/p>\n<p>Something to weigh in the balance\u00a0in the Brexit talks, perhaps.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote about the summary report of the\u00a0Living Planet Index last week\u00a0and thought it much less apocalyptic than the Guardian headline writers. \u00a0It is, of course, full of facts 'n' figures which make absorbing reading. \u00a0There are a few surprises...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}