Post by account_disabled on Mar 13, 2024 22:12:51 GMT -6
It seems that the month of August is a date that is defining the future of our planet, and, according to the international organization Global Footprint Network, until today, humanity will have used nature's resource budget for the entire year.
Currently, man exploits natural resources at a much faster speed than they can be renewed: 1.7 times faster than they can be regenerated. This means that, to satisfy our current demand, 1.7 Earths would be needed.
It is worth mentioning that since 1970, the Global Footprint Network has published estimated measurements of the resources people use according to productive areas, including food, wood, fiber, shelter, infrastructure and carbon emissions. With this measurement you can know the current parameters.
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Natural resources for one year: We exhaust them ahead of time
Therefore, it is concluded that right at the beginning of this month, we will have already consumed the natural resources of 2018, that is, all the trees, water, fertile soil, fish, etc., that the Earth can provide us in one year.
It's not that something specific is going to happen from one day to the next," González pointed out. “It is a continuous process with trends.”
According to Mathis Wackernagel, CEO and co-founder of Global Footprint Network, “our current economies are operating in a Ponzi scheme with our planet. We are borrowing the Earth's future resources to operate our economies in the present. Like any Ponzi scheme, this works for a while. But as nations, companies or households sink deeper and deeper into debt, they eventually fall apart.”
Both June and July are considered the hottest months in history, since the heat wave caused fires in Greece that left more than 70 dead, fires in the Arctic Circle and in Sweden, dozens of deaths due to high temperatures in Korea. of the South and heat records in California, Texas and Africa.
Currently, man exploits natural resources at a much faster speed than they can be renewed: 1.7 times faster than they can be regenerated. This means that, to satisfy our current demand, 1.7 Earths would be needed.
It is worth mentioning that since 1970, the Global Footprint Network has published estimated measurements of the resources people use according to productive areas, including food, wood, fiber, shelter, infrastructure and carbon emissions. With this measurement you can know the current parameters.
Man exploits natural AQB Directory resources at a much faster speed than they can be renewed.
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Natural resources for one year: We exhaust them ahead of time
Therefore, it is concluded that right at the beginning of this month, we will have already consumed the natural resources of 2018, that is, all the trees, water, fertile soil, fish, etc., that the Earth can provide us in one year.
It's not that something specific is going to happen from one day to the next," González pointed out. “It is a continuous process with trends.”
According to Mathis Wackernagel, CEO and co-founder of Global Footprint Network, “our current economies are operating in a Ponzi scheme with our planet. We are borrowing the Earth's future resources to operate our economies in the present. Like any Ponzi scheme, this works for a while. But as nations, companies or households sink deeper and deeper into debt, they eventually fall apart.”
Both June and July are considered the hottest months in history, since the heat wave caused fires in Greece that left more than 70 dead, fires in the Arctic Circle and in Sweden, dozens of deaths due to high temperatures in Korea. of the South and heat records in California, Texas and Africa.