You might sometimes wonder, as I do, what your impact on the world has been. This post hopes to give you (and myself) an insight into what your global footprint is, in a number of different measurements- not just on the environment. Now these surveys and sites are general approximations, because there is inherent uncertainty in the data and also the detail you would need to give for a 100% reading would be mind-boggling! So take these as good estimates of your footprint, rather than exact numbers. 1- Slavery Footprint I heard about this site at a lecture about slave identity at the University of Nottingham by Prof Zoe Trodd, I learnt a lot from that lecture- slavery is a much bigger problem than I imagine many people believe. With an estimate approaching 3 million worldwide (and an esitmated 2000 in the UK), there are almost as many slaves globally as there were at the height of the slave trade in the 16th Century! Now I'm not talking about sweatshops or chi...
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