Industrialization and urbanization have improved people’s standard of living, but these two processes have also accelerated consumption of ecological goods and services. China’s increasingly high carbon footprint relative to energy consumption and the decreasing ability of forestlands to absorb CO2 have become primary causes of ecological degradation while also effecting China’s territorial ecological security. This paper analyzes China’s carbon footprint to determine how the ecological security pattern has been effected by regional energy consumption. China’s per capita carbon footprint has doubled more than twenty times since 1949, while the relationship of ecological deficit to territorial security has not been adequately considered. Regional differences in carbon footprint, due to the uneven distribution of energy resources as well as uneven social and economic development, now threaten China’s territorial ecological security. Finally, this paper suggested that regional energy consumption and natural ecological reserves are the two factors most effecting the ecological security pattern of China’s energy consumption.%工业化和城镇化进程在推动人类文明和生活进步的同时，也加剧了对生态系统产品和服务的消费。能源消费的碳足迹的增加及吸纳其产生的CO2所需的林地的减少，已成为生态赤字的主要原因，也对国土生态安全造成了重要影响。本文基于碳足迹对中国能源消费的生态安全格局的影响进行了分析，研究发现：1949年以来中国大陆人均碳足迹增长了20倍；碳足迹的生态赤字对国土安全的威胁未得到有效控制，这种影响仍将长期存在；能源资源的分布不均及社会经济发展的区域差异等因素造成碳足迹的区域流动，对国土生态安全带来额外的压力和威胁；最后，本文指出应从区域能源消耗量以及自然生态禀赋两个角度来考虑中国能源消费的生态安全格局。
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