“[The] ‘excess’ use of the Earth’s resources or - TopicsExpress



          

“[The] ‘excess’ use of the Earth’s resources or ‘overshoot’ is possible because resources can be harvested faster than they can be replaced...the cumulative overshoot from the mid-1980s to 2002 resulted in an ‘ecological debt’ that would require 2.5 planet Earths to pay. In a business-as-usual scenario, our demands on planet Earth could mount to the productivity of 27 planets by 2050.” Marine Ecology Progress Series, Vol. 434: p.261, 2011
Posted on: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 16:00:00 +0000

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