ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the daily life of people, such as, house, transport, food, leisure, and energy, in different places in Africa and explains the environmental impact of these ways of living from the perspective of ecological and carbon footprints. The different places include Marrakesh, Inhassoro, Mozambique, Johannesburg and Juba. The population increase will mean that Africa as a whole will have to draw on resources outside its boundaries as its footprint grows to be larger than its bio-capacity. Africa's growing footprint between 1961 and 2008 largely arises from population increase, as there was a 5 per cent decline in the per capita ecological footprint (EF) in the same period. In 2010, the people of Africa formed 14.8 per cent of the 6.9 billion people in the world. The average EF for Africa was only 0.7 gha/person, but by 2008 it had climbed to 1.4 gha/person.
