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Humans Have Used Up A Year’s Worth Of The Earth’s Resources In 8 Months
Less than eight months into 2015, humans have already consumed a year’s worth of the Earth’s resources.
Ecological Debt Day, or Earth Overshoot Day, falls on Thursday and marks the point in the year when “humanity’s annual demand for the goods and services that our land and seas can provide — fruits and vegetables, meat, fish, wood, cotton for clothing, and carbon dioxide absorption — exceeds what Earth’s ecosystems can renew in a year,” the international think tank Global Footprint Network explains in the video below.
This means that for the rest of 2015, we will be “living on resources borrowed from future generations,” the World Wildlife Fund said. It’s like overdrawing a bank account.
The earth is going into ecological debt earlier each year, The Guardian notes. This year’s Earth Overshoot Day is six days ahead of last year’s, and months earlier than in 2000, when it arrived in October.
Global Footprint Network and other experts say addressing the growing problem of overpopulation is a cornerstone of reducing ecological debt. John R. Wilmoth, director of the United Nations Population Division, announced Monday that the world population of 7.3 billion people is predicted to reach 9.7 billion by 2050 and up to 13.3 billion by 2100. He said there’s only a 23 percent chance that the world’s population will stop growing before the end of the century.
The U.S. is the world’s ninth-biggest resource hog, using 310 percent of its capacity for resources, Global Footprint Network data shows. Top offenders are the United Arab Emirates (750 percent), Singapore (590 percent) and Belgium (460 percent.)
8 Comments on "Humans Have Used Up A Year’s Worth Of The Earth’s Resources In 8 Months"
Apneaman on Thu, 13th Aug 2015 8:13 pm
Have no resources – will travel. Coming to a suburb near you.
A Tsunami of Climate Refugees is Drowning Europe
“In just the latest ramification of the new Dark Age advancing on Europe, 1,000 Afghan and Syrian refugees who had made their way to the Greek Island of Kos were rounded up by riot police yesterday (after having been herded with fire extinguishers) and imprisoned in an open stadium until they could be “registered.” At last report there were three — count them, three — officers taking names. It is not that the authorities are heartless, they are overwhelmed. Those 1,000 refugees are not all the refugees on Kos, that is how many refugees arrive every day. “The situation on the island is out of control,” said the mayor of Kos, “blood will be shed.”
“Greece faces a crisis within a crisis,” said prime minister Alexis Tsipras. “The migrant flows exceed the capacity of our state infrastructure.” About 120,000 refugees have stumbled ashore on the Greek Islands so far this year, four times the influx during all of 2014. The other principal landing for refugees traveling to Europe by boat, Italy, estimates that 100,000 have come aground there this year. ”
http://www.dailyimpact.net/2015/08/12/a-tsunami-of-climate-refugees-is-drowning-europe/
Rodster on Thu, 13th Aug 2015 9:03 pm
“Air pollution in China is killing 4,000 people every day, a new study finds”
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/14/air-pollution-in-china-is-killing-4000-people-every-day-a-new-study-finds
Kenz300 on Fri, 14th Aug 2015 9:06 am
The worlds worst environmental problem is OVER POPULATION.
penury on Fri, 14th Aug 2015 12:18 pm
Gird your loins all you U.S. citizens, you are only number 9, we must consume more We must be number one.
Apneaman on Fri, 14th Aug 2015 12:45 pm
Kenz300 says “The worlds worst environmental problem is OVER POPULATION.”
You know the fastest way to slow it down and buy humanity some decades? Kill the citizenry from the most educated countries. They make up less than 20% of the population, yet use 80%. Sacrifices must be made Kenz, so you and your family need to take the communal shower – nothing personal just trying to save the world.
joe on Fri, 14th Aug 2015 6:56 pm
we are beginning to move past the simple post colonial post industrial paradigms in the west, most work provides some kind of service. most labour is done by machines. many people can get by on as little as 35 hours a week of providing a service like shop worker or call centre employee and can make allot of money selling basic services.
we are finally dealing with the first of the real fallout from Americas and britains wars.
there is no going back, the more this goes on, the more Islamic Europe gets and they wont forget who forced them to flee their homes.
Apneaman on Fri, 14th Aug 2015 10:36 pm
Where did everyone get the money to buy all that crap?
Americans Have $11.85 Trillion in Household Debt. How Did We Get Here?
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32355-americans-have-11-85-trillion-in-household-debt-how-did-we-get-here
Canada 2nd Only To Greece In Household Debt Growth, Risks Crisis: Study
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/02/05/household-debt-crisis-canada_n_6623322.html
Kenz300 on Sat, 15th Aug 2015 8:12 am
The least educated people have the most children…
The poorest people have the most children………
conversely
The most educated people have the least children……..
The wealthiest people have the fewest children……………
Having a baby that you can not provide for is cruel…
Birth Control Permanent Methods: Learn About Effectiveness
http://www.emedicinehealth.com/birth_control_permanent_methods/article_em.htm