Hey, conservatives, your bank account is overdrawn. Stop spending... ================ Nations worldwide have reached their ecological ‘spending limit’ on Tuesday, August 20, or Earth Overshoot Day, the estimated date when people start to consume more than the allotted amount of natural resources in a year. The ‘green letter day’ is an annual awareness campaign by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and its partner, the Global Footprint Network (GFN). The network measures the world’s ecological footprint vis-à-vis its biocapacity, or the amount of resources exhausted and carbon emissions expelled in relation to the ability of nature to produce these resources and absorb these emissions. According to GFN and WWF, people around the globe are officially on zero balance on nature’s accounting sheet of resources required to survive. Jim Leape, WWF International director general, said, “Nature is the basis of our wellbeing and our prosperity – but we are using up way too much of the Earth’s finite resources … simply put, we are asking for more than what we have available.”
Posted on: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 18:50:32 +0000
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