Environmental Science 14th Edition by Tyler Miller ,Scott Spoolman

Exercise 7

If the ecological footprint per person of a country or the world (Figure 1-8) is larger than its biological capacity per person to replenish its renewable resources and absorb the resulting waste products and pollution, the country or the world is said to have an ecological deficit. If the reverse is true, the country or the world has an ecological credit or reserve. Use the data below to calculate the ecological deficit or credit for the countries listed and for the world.(For a map of ecological creditors and debtors see Figure 5, p. S27, in Supplement 6.)

Which two countries have the largest ecological deficits Why do you think they have such large deficits