Earth's Resources Used Up at Quickest Rate Ever in 2016

[DEAD7]

In just over seven months, humanity has used up a full year's allotment of natural resources such as water, food and clean air -- the quickest rate yet, according to a new report. The point of "overshoot" will officially be reached on Monday, said environmental group Global Footprint Network -- five days earlier than last year. "We continue to grow our ecological debt," said Pascal Canfin of green group WWF, reacting to the annual update. "From Monday August 8, we will be living on credit because in eight months we would have consumed the natural capital that our planet can renew in a year."

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

We are on an accelerated path to our own extinction.

 

[ⒶⓁⒾⒶⓈ]

I dont trust environmentalists....they hate people especially poor people...look at the shyt they say
water..Human beings can and do develop water purification
air?? Thats just ridiculous..the biggest users of the available oxygen are probably aquatic microbes and second who measured this and how
food? Human beings produce their own food

 

[el_oh_el]

We are on an accelerated path to our own extinction.

Indeed. We're fukked. Only a matter of time.
I blame...capitalism?

 

[newworldafro]

I dont trust environmentalists....they hate people especially poor people...look at the shyt they say
water..Human beings can and do develop water purification
air?? Thats just ridiculous..the biggest users of the available oxygen are probably aquatic microbes and second who measured this and how
food? Human beings produce their own food

There is fukkery in the ranks....like when was the last time a prominent environmentalist group mentioned Fukushima...hell half of the largest ones still promote nooklear power..... Most of those are in the Democratic party right?

Well the reason, why I can't just put my faith in Republican party either is because they want to develop and exploit resources, till there is nothing left, and use libertarian free market philiosophy as their shield......they got nothing to say when the water is undrinkable.

This is why I can't promote either party on some zombie like steeze. We are destroying our natural environment, because the industrial paradigm as far as raw materials hasn't changed in 100 years. It's not by accident. We have the technology to not be over exploiting our resources though, but the term "disruptive technology" has been the overarching feauture of keeping the status quo. Shiit is breaking through though. S. Korea is working with an international team to commercialize cold fusion?? based generators that will not cause nooklear winter and make the land uninhabitable if they break down.

 

[Scoop]

People nowadays have too much shyt to power

 

[hashmander]

i don't have any kids and i don't plan on having any so i really stopped caring. so many people with kids don't seem to give a fukk so i'm not bothered anymore.

 

[dabestkeptsecret]

They're measuring how much air we use

 

[hayesc0]

 

[Domingo Halliburton]

If the world’s 7.4 billion people used the earth’s resources like Australians do, we would need 5.4 earths to suffice the demand, according to data.

 

[Red Shield]

You got a mass die-off coming sometime this century.. so it's whateva

 

[Trajan]

In other words, rich industrialised countries have been abusing the earth but are now when other countries want in on he action.



You guys got fat while everybody starved on the street.

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

In other words, rich industrialised countries have been abusing the earth but are now when other countries want in on he action.



You guys got fat while everybody starved on the street.

US about to attempt to destabilize every other country on Earth.

 

[88m3]

Lord FreeMarket approves

 

[Red Shield]

In other words, rich industrialised countries have been abusing the earth but are now when other countries want in on he action.



You guys got fat while everybody starved on the street.

Yeah there is that element to it too.

The rich industrialized nations are built and maintained through cheap+plentiful resources. The more countries that rise up... the more expensive and scarce those resources become.



No one stays on top forever tho.. once empire decline begins.. it can't be stopped