CoasterToasterXB
10-06-2007, 04:42 AM
story
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/10/ecological_debt.php
and the link to Debt day site
http://www.footprintnetwork.org/gfn_sub.php?content=overshoot
to calculate your foot print
http://www.earthday.net/Footprint/index.asp
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As humanity’s consumption of resources increases, Ecological Debt Day creeps earlier on the calendar. According to current calculations, humanity’s first Ecological Debt Day was December 19, 1987. By 1995 it had jumped back a month to 21 November. In 2007, with Ecological Debt on October 6, humanity's Ecological Footprint is almost thirty per cent larger than the planet’s productivity this year. In other words, it now takes more than one year and three months for the Earth to regenerate what we use in a single year.
We currently maintain this overshoot by liquidating the planet’s natural resources. For example we can cut trees faster than they re-grow, and catch fish at a rate faster than they repopulate. While this can be done for a short while, overshoot ultimately leads to the depletion of resources on which our economy depends.:(
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/10/ecological_debt.php
and the link to Debt day site
http://www.footprintnetwork.org/gfn_sub.php?content=overshoot
to calculate your foot print
http://www.earthday.net/Footprint/index.asp
:(
As humanity’s consumption of resources increases, Ecological Debt Day creeps earlier on the calendar. According to current calculations, humanity’s first Ecological Debt Day was December 19, 1987. By 1995 it had jumped back a month to 21 November. In 2007, with Ecological Debt on October 6, humanity's Ecological Footprint is almost thirty per cent larger than the planet’s productivity this year. In other words, it now takes more than one year and three months for the Earth to regenerate what we use in a single year.
We currently maintain this overshoot by liquidating the planet’s natural resources. For example we can cut trees faster than they re-grow, and catch fish at a rate faster than they repopulate. While this can be done for a short while, overshoot ultimately leads to the depletion of resources on which our economy depends.:(