The other side of what may be understood as debt is the natural resources mounting deficit. Today is Earth Overshoot Day. This term indicates that anything consumed from today until the end of the year, is more than the earth can regenerate. "Today, more than 80 percent of the world’s population lives in countries that use more than the ecosystems within their own borders can renew. These “ecological debtor” countries either deplete their own ecological resources or get them from elsewhere. Japan’s residents consume the ecological resources of 7.1 Japans. It would take four Italys to support Italy. Egypt uses the ecological resources of 2.4 Egypts." footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/earth_overshoot_day/
Posted on: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:26:10 +0000
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