This morning while I was checking the FIFA world cup updates, I encountered a very interesting article. The article showed an interesting relationship of football and Ecological footprint. Yes, you read it right, it talked about if the goal scoring power is anyway influenced the bigger or smaller footprint? The article was published by global footprint Network which evaluated the ecological footprint of the countries that reached in the quarterfinal stage and goal score by them in the group stage.

According to the article, it s clearly indicated that the goal scoring capacity is not backed by the bigger ecological footprint of the country suggesting using more resources does not help much, at least not for scoring goals.

Interestingly the South American nations had the smallest ecological footprint, which revealed that if people around the globe start living like Columbians, Brazilians and Argentineans only 1.1, 1.7 and 1.6 Earth would be required to live. In contrast, if the people in world adapt lifestyles of the European countries like Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France we would require 2.6, 3.6, 2.7 and 4.3 Earths to live in. The situation will surely be scary if people choose to live like Europeans. The bigger ecological footprint that could not give us more goals in the world cup would never let us achieve goal of sustainable future.

Fortunately the world cup has not just gave us two football loving nations but also two nations that has comparatively higher and lower ecological footprint, i,e. Germany and Argentina. No wonder the best team with some bit of luck will win triumph.

But it would be more interesting to see Argentina win at least from environmental perspective as we can surely say maximum consumption of resources does not get you success, at least not the WORLD CUP.

For full original article please follow the link:

http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/blog/world_cup_footwork_and_footprints