Aug. 1 marks Earth Overshoot Day 2018, the point in our calendars when we tip into consuming more natural resources than the planet can regenerate in a year.
Global Footprint Network, an international nonprofit that calculates how we are managing ― or failing to manage ― the world’s resources, says that in the first seven months of 2018 we devoured a year’s worth of resources, such as water and fibers like cotton, to produce everything from the food on our plates to the clothes we’re wearing and the gas in our cars.
This year sees the earliest Earth Overshoot Day since the 1970s, when humanity’s resource consumption first started to exceed what the planet could renew in a year.
Rampant deforestation, acute freshwater shortages, collapsing fisheries and dramatic biodiversity loss show some of the ways that our overuse of resources is already being felt.
Wackernagel said he is certain that humanity will move out of overshoot. “The question,” he said, “is whether we do so by design or by disaster.
t. tankie between bouts of poisoning the ecology with massive amounts of radioactive waste and toxic chemicals because doing things correctly would hold up the 5 year plan
Luis Russell
TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME
Matthew Mitchell
Who cares. I'm going to consume as much resources as possible. When I die it's the end of the world for me–from my point of view.
Implying that it's at all the fault of the wealthy and not the mindless breeding brokepoors who shouldn't be shooting out offspring they can't adequately care for.
this guy is implying that drumpf shitposter is cia
its part of the alphabet soups new recruitment campaign
Andrew Evans
Well never deplete the earth of resources. We couldn't if we tried
Kevin Howard
Is it any wonder why climate science is a joke?
Jeremiah Thompson
< Today is "watch the Left support renamed Nazi policies" day.
Jason Wilson
Like it matters who gets elected. They're just a figure head for the parallel government that runs the world behind the scenes who think God gave them the right to rule, when in reality they're full of shit and themselves.
So basically we need to make the earth regenerate faster.
Eli Gomez
ignorant. say that again in a few decades. food on land and sea is already at the breaking point. we're not even going to be able to make computers anymore in a few decades, unless we think of some new materials to make them out of.
