Do you believe that we are now or will soon be overpopulated?

[Unkotare]

By the End of This Century, the Global Population Will Start to Shrink


"We do not face the challenge of a population bomb, so rampant in the popular imagination, but of a population bust..."

 

[Unkotare]

Fertility Rates Keep Dropping, and It’s Going to Hit the Economy Hard

 

[MarathonMike]

Fertility Rates Keep Dropping, and It’s Going to Hit the Economy Hard

Birth rates are dropping in First World countries, but the Third World is reproducing like rabbits.

 

[Unkotare]

Fertility Rates Keep Dropping, and It’s Going to Hit the Economy Hard

Birth rates are dropping in First World countries, but the Third World is reproducing like rabbits.

incorrect

 

[MarathonMike]

Fertility Rates Keep Dropping, and It’s Going to Hit the Economy Hard

Birth rates are dropping in First World countries, but the Third World is reproducing like rabbits.

incorrect

Read your own link. It supports what I said. They make a weak statement about Third world women beginning to get access to birth control but the birth rates are sky high as is evidenced by the women with 3 or 4 bloated belly kids in tow showing up for food relief.

 

[bripat9643]

The bottom line is that the world is not overpopulated, and there is no need to panic about the future. Good news!

Then how do you explain this?

Humans have used a year’s worth of Earth’s resources in just seven months

Humans are using up the planet’s resources so quickly that people have used a year’s worth in just seven months, experts are warning.

And the rate at which we are consuming the Earth’s natural resources is still speeding up.

This year the annual date when people have caused a year’s worth of ecological damage – Earth Overshoot Day – comes two days earlier than last year.

Please don't tell me an inner city public school teacher like you is smarter than the experts. PLEASE!

bullshit liberal propaganda.

Prove what you just said is true

You first. You made the claim prove it's true. Otherwise it's bullshit.

Earth Overshoot Day Shows We’re Tearing Through Resources Faster Than Ever
July 29 marks the point at which we start to consume more than the Earth can replenish. And this date is getting earlier each year.

Happy Overshoot Day unkotare. Last year I posted this on July 31st. This year Overshoot day falls 2 days sooner.

the point each year at which humanity starts to consume the world’s natural resources faster than they can be replenished.

It’s taken us only 209 days to burn through a year’s worth of resources — everything from food and timber to land and carbon. We are using up nature 1.75 times faster than it can be replenished. To do this sustainably, we would need the resources of 1.75 Earths.

These latest figures come from Global Footprint Network, an international nonprofit that calculates our annual ecological budget and the date at which we exceed it. Once we bust through this budget, we start devouring resources at an unsustainable rate.

“It’s a pyramid scheme,” said Mathis Wackernagel, CEO and founder of Global Footprint Network. “It depends on using more and more from the future to pay for the present.”

It’s like being in financial debt, only much harder to recover. “There’s nothing to kickstart the economy if we overuse our resources,” he said, “because every economic activity depends on natural capital, and without that, it’s not going to work.”

The burden of this ecological debt is getting heavier. We started overconsuming resources back in the 1970s, and since then it’s gotten progressively worse. Over the last 20 years, Earth Overshoot Day has crept forward by more than two months. And this year, it falls on the earliest date yet.

Forests are being felled at an alarming rate to provide timber and clear land for agriculture — two football fields’ worth of Amazon rainforest were cleared every minute in May. We are overexploiting water resources for industry and agriculture, and to provide drinking water for ever-expanding cities. And our addiction to fossil fuels means we are producing carbon emissions at levels that will push us further into dangerous temperature rises.

As with financial debt, we can only avoid the consequences for so long. The impact is already becoming frighteningly clear. Wildfires are becoming more frequent and more destructive. Cities around the world, from Cape Town to Chennai, are running out of water supplies, and a landmark U.N. biodiversity report published in May said up to 1 million species could go extinct thanks to human actions.

While the consequences are likely to affect poorer nations more starkly, it’s the populations of richer nations that live further beyond their means, according to the Global Footprint Network. If everyone lived like people in the United States, for example, we would need five Earths. If we all consumed resources at the same rate as people in India, we would only need seven-tenths of a planet to meet our demands.

Earth Overshoot Day Shows We're Tearing Through Resources Faster Than Ever | HuffPost

Now, you prove it.

What the hell is "a year's worth of Earth's resources?" How was that unit determined?" You do realize that technology increases the sum total of Earth's resources, don't you? If we were still using copper wires to make telephone calls over, copper would have been used up 20 years ago. Now we use fiber optic which is made from silica. The supply of silica is virtually infinite.


Your post is pure propaganda.

 

[bripat9643]

By the End of This Century, the Global Population Will Start to Shrink


"We do not face the challenge of a population bomb, so rampant in the popular imagination, but of a population bust..."

I've read it will max out in 2050 at about 11 billion. Still way too many people, however.

 

[sealybobo]

Then how do you explain this?

Humans have used a year’s worth of Earth’s resources in just seven months

Humans are using up the planet’s resources so quickly that people have used a year’s worth in just seven months, experts are warning.

And the rate at which we are consuming the Earth’s natural resources is still speeding up.

This year the annual date when people have caused a year’s worth of ecological damage – Earth Overshoot Day – comes two days earlier than last year.

Please don't tell me an inner city public school teacher like you is smarter than the experts. PLEASE!

bullshit liberal propaganda.

Prove what you just said is true

You first. You made the claim prove it's true. Otherwise it's bullshit.

Earth Overshoot Day Shows We’re Tearing Through Resources Faster Than Ever
July 29 marks the point at which we start to consume more than the Earth can replenish. And this date is getting earlier each year.

Happy Overshoot Day unkotare. Last year I posted this on July 31st. This year Overshoot day falls 2 days sooner.

the point each year at which humanity starts to consume the world’s natural resources faster than they can be replenished.

It’s taken us only 209 days to burn through a year’s worth of resources — everything from food and timber to land and carbon. We are using up nature 1.75 times faster than it can be replenished. To do this sustainably, we would need the resources of 1.75 Earths.

These latest figures come from Global Footprint Network, an international nonprofit that calculates our annual ecological budget and the date at which we exceed it. Once we bust through this budget, we start devouring resources at an unsustainable rate.

“It’s a pyramid scheme,” said Mathis Wackernagel, CEO and founder of Global Footprint Network. “It depends on using more and more from the future to pay for the present.”

It’s like being in financial debt, only much harder to recover. “There’s nothing to kickstart the economy if we overuse our resources,” he said, “because every economic activity depends on natural capital, and without that, it’s not going to work.”

The burden of this ecological debt is getting heavier. We started overconsuming resources back in the 1970s, and since then it’s gotten progressively worse. Over the last 20 years, Earth Overshoot Day has crept forward by more than two months. And this year, it falls on the earliest date yet.

Forests are being felled at an alarming rate to provide timber and clear land for agriculture — two football fields’ worth of Amazon rainforest were cleared every minute in May. We are overexploiting water resources for industry and agriculture, and to provide drinking water for ever-expanding cities. And our addiction to fossil fuels means we are producing carbon emissions at levels that will push us further into dangerous temperature rises.

As with financial debt, we can only avoid the consequences for so long. The impact is already becoming frighteningly clear. Wildfires are becoming more frequent and more destructive. Cities around the world, from Cape Town to Chennai, are running out of water supplies, and a landmark U.N. biodiversity report published in May said up to 1 million species could go extinct thanks to human actions.

While the consequences are likely to affect poorer nations more starkly, it’s the populations of richer nations that live further beyond their means, according to the Global Footprint Network. If everyone lived like people in the United States, for example, we would need five Earths. If we all consumed resources at the same rate as people in India, we would only need seven-tenths of a planet to meet our demands.

Earth Overshoot Day Shows We're Tearing Through Resources Faster Than Ever | HuffPost

Now, you prove it.

What the hell is "a year's worth of Earth's resources?" How was that unit determined?" You do realize that technology increases the sum total of Earth's resources, don't you? If we were still using copper wires to make telephone calls over, copper would have been used up 20 years ago. Now we use fiber optic which is made from silica. The supply of silica is virtually infinite.


Your post is pure propaganda.

You get it. I see your next post. You understand overpopulation is real. Especially in cities like Baltimore.

 

[sealybobo]

By the End of This Century, the Global Population Will Start to Shrink


"We do not face the challenge of a population bomb, so rampant in the popular imagination, but of a population bust..."

I've read it will max out in 2050 at about 11 billion. Still way too many people, however.

At least we agree on this.

 

[Indeependent]

bullshit liberal propaganda.

Prove what you just said is true

You first. You made the claim prove it's true. Otherwise it's bullshit.

Earth Overshoot Day Shows We’re Tearing Through Resources Faster Than Ever
July 29 marks the point at which we start to consume more than the Earth can replenish. And this date is getting earlier each year.

Happy Overshoot Day unkotare. Last year I posted this on July 31st. This year Overshoot day falls 2 days sooner.

the point each year at which humanity starts to consume the world’s natural resources faster than they can be replenished.

It’s taken us only 209 days to burn through a year’s worth of resources — everything from food and timber to land and carbon. We are using up nature 1.75 times faster than it can be replenished. To do this sustainably, we would need the resources of 1.75 Earths.

These latest figures come from Global Footprint Network, an international nonprofit that calculates our annual ecological budget and the date at which we exceed it. Once we bust through this budget, we start devouring resources at an unsustainable rate.

“It’s a pyramid scheme,” said Mathis Wackernagel, CEO and founder of Global Footprint Network. “It depends on using more and more from the future to pay for the present.”

It’s like being in financial debt, only much harder to recover. “There’s nothing to kickstart the economy if we overuse our resources,” he said, “because every economic activity depends on natural capital, and without that, it’s not going to work.”

The burden of this ecological debt is getting heavier. We started overconsuming resources back in the 1970s, and since then it’s gotten progressively worse. Over the last 20 years, Earth Overshoot Day has crept forward by more than two months. And this year, it falls on the earliest date yet.

Forests are being felled at an alarming rate to provide timber and clear land for agriculture — two football fields’ worth of Amazon rainforest were cleared every minute in May. We are overexploiting water resources for industry and agriculture, and to provide drinking water for ever-expanding cities. And our addiction to fossil fuels means we are producing carbon emissions at levels that will push us further into dangerous temperature rises.

As with financial debt, we can only avoid the consequences for so long. The impact is already becoming frighteningly clear. Wildfires are becoming more frequent and more destructive. Cities around the world, from Cape Town to Chennai, are running out of water supplies, and a landmark U.N. biodiversity report published in May said up to 1 million species could go extinct thanks to human actions.

While the consequences are likely to affect poorer nations more starkly, it’s the populations of richer nations that live further beyond their means, according to the Global Footprint Network. If everyone lived like people in the United States, for example, we would need five Earths. If we all consumed resources at the same rate as people in India, we would only need seven-tenths of a planet to meet our demands.

Earth Overshoot Day Shows We're Tearing Through Resources Faster Than Ever | HuffPost

Now, you prove it.

What the hell is "a year's worth of Earth's resources?" How was that unit determined?" You do realize that technology increases the sum total of Earth's resources, don't you? If we were still using copper wires to make telephone calls over, copper would have been used up 20 years ago. Now we use fiber optic which is made from silica. The supply of silica is virtually infinite.


Your post is pure propaganda.

Are you so stupid that you can't grasp this? They even explained it in the article. Who determines this? Scientists do. They look how fast we are consuming and what is a sustainable rate and.....you know what? It's over your pea brain head.

I love it when you righties show you are anti science. Ignorant fuckers.

My wife’s Cousin, an ecological engineer, with over 30 years experience designing and constructing municipal infrastructure, disagrees with you.

 

[bripat9643]

bullshit liberal propaganda.

Prove what you just said is true

You first. You made the claim prove it's true. Otherwise it's bullshit.

Earth Overshoot Day Shows We’re Tearing Through Resources Faster Than Ever
July 29 marks the point at which we start to consume more than the Earth can replenish. And this date is getting earlier each year.

Happy Overshoot Day unkotare. Last year I posted this on July 31st. This year Overshoot day falls 2 days sooner.

the point each year at which humanity starts to consume the world’s natural resources faster than they can be replenished.

It’s taken us only 209 days to burn through a year’s worth of resources — everything from food and timber to land and carbon. We are using up nature 1.75 times faster than it can be replenished. To do this sustainably, we would need the resources of 1.75 Earths.

These latest figures come from Global Footprint Network, an international nonprofit that calculates our annual ecological budget and the date at which we exceed it. Once we bust through this budget, we start devouring resources at an unsustainable rate.

“It’s a pyramid scheme,” said Mathis Wackernagel, CEO and founder of Global Footprint Network. “It depends on using more and more from the future to pay for the present.”

It’s like being in financial debt, only much harder to recover. “There’s nothing to kickstart the economy if we overuse our resources,” he said, “because every economic activity depends on natural capital, and without that, it’s not going to work.”

The burden of this ecological debt is getting heavier. We started overconsuming resources back in the 1970s, and since then it’s gotten progressively worse. Over the last 20 years, Earth Overshoot Day has crept forward by more than two months. And this year, it falls on the earliest date yet.

Forests are being felled at an alarming rate to provide timber and clear land for agriculture — two football fields’ worth of Amazon rainforest were cleared every minute in May. We are overexploiting water resources for industry and agriculture, and to provide drinking water for ever-expanding cities. And our addiction to fossil fuels means we are producing carbon emissions at levels that will push us further into dangerous temperature rises.

As with financial debt, we can only avoid the consequences for so long. The impact is already becoming frighteningly clear. Wildfires are becoming more frequent and more destructive. Cities around the world, from Cape Town to Chennai, are running out of water supplies, and a landmark U.N. biodiversity report published in May said up to 1 million species could go extinct thanks to human actions.

While the consequences are likely to affect poorer nations more starkly, it’s the populations of richer nations that live further beyond their means, according to the Global Footprint Network. If everyone lived like people in the United States, for example, we would need five Earths. If we all consumed resources at the same rate as people in India, we would only need seven-tenths of a planet to meet our demands.

Earth Overshoot Day Shows We're Tearing Through Resources Faster Than Ever | HuffPost

Now, you prove it.

What the hell is "a year's worth of Earth's resources?" How was that unit determined?" You do realize that technology increases the sum total of Earth's resources, don't you? If we were still using copper wires to make telephone calls over, copper would have been used up 20 years ago. Now we use fiber optic which is made from silica. The supply of silica is virtually infinite.


Your post is pure propaganda.

You get it. I see your next post. You understand overpopulation is real. Especially in cities like Baltimore.

Overpopulation is a problem, but not because we are running out of resources. Overpopulation impacts other species living on the planet, and 11 billion people on this planet is just plain too many. A reasonable number would be 2.5 billion.

 

[sealybobo]

Prove what you just said is true

You first. You made the claim prove it's true. Otherwise it's bullshit.

Earth Overshoot Day Shows We’re Tearing Through Resources Faster Than Ever
July 29 marks the point at which we start to consume more than the Earth can replenish. And this date is getting earlier each year.

Happy Overshoot Day unkotare. Last year I posted this on July 31st. This year Overshoot day falls 2 days sooner.

the point each year at which humanity starts to consume the world’s natural resources faster than they can be replenished.

It’s taken us only 209 days to burn through a year’s worth of resources — everything from food and timber to land and carbon. We are using up nature 1.75 times faster than it can be replenished. To do this sustainably, we would need the resources of 1.75 Earths.

These latest figures come from Global Footprint Network, an international nonprofit that calculates our annual ecological budget and the date at which we exceed it. Once we bust through this budget, we start devouring resources at an unsustainable rate.

“It’s a pyramid scheme,” said Mathis Wackernagel, CEO and founder of Global Footprint Network. “It depends on using more and more from the future to pay for the present.”

It’s like being in financial debt, only much harder to recover. “There’s nothing to kickstart the economy if we overuse our resources,” he said, “because every economic activity depends on natural capital, and without that, it’s not going to work.”

The burden of this ecological debt is getting heavier. We started overconsuming resources back in the 1970s, and since then it’s gotten progressively worse. Over the last 20 years, Earth Overshoot Day has crept forward by more than two months. And this year, it falls on the earliest date yet.

Forests are being felled at an alarming rate to provide timber and clear land for agriculture — two football fields’ worth of Amazon rainforest were cleared every minute in May. We are overexploiting water resources for industry and agriculture, and to provide drinking water for ever-expanding cities. And our addiction to fossil fuels means we are producing carbon emissions at levels that will push us further into dangerous temperature rises.

As with financial debt, we can only avoid the consequences for so long. The impact is already becoming frighteningly clear. Wildfires are becoming more frequent and more destructive. Cities around the world, from Cape Town to Chennai, are running out of water supplies, and a landmark U.N. biodiversity report published in May said up to 1 million species could go extinct thanks to human actions.

While the consequences are likely to affect poorer nations more starkly, it’s the populations of richer nations that live further beyond their means, according to the Global Footprint Network. If everyone lived like people in the United States, for example, we would need five Earths. If we all consumed resources at the same rate as people in India, we would only need seven-tenths of a planet to meet our demands.

Earth Overshoot Day Shows We're Tearing Through Resources Faster Than Ever | HuffPost

Now, you prove it.

What the hell is "a year's worth of Earth's resources?" How was that unit determined?" You do realize that technology increases the sum total of Earth's resources, don't you? If we were still using copper wires to make telephone calls over, copper would have been used up 20 years ago. Now we use fiber optic which is made from silica. The supply of silica is virtually infinite.


Your post is pure propaganda.

You get it. I see your next post. You understand overpopulation is real. Especially in cities like Baltimore.

Overpopulation is a problem, but not because we are running out of resources. Overpopulation impacts other species living on the planet, and 11 billion people on this planet is just plain too many. A reasonable number would be 2.5 billion.

But aren't we running out of resources because we are overpopulated?

 

[Indeependent]

You first. You made the claim prove it's true. Otherwise it's bullshit.

Earth Overshoot Day Shows We’re Tearing Through Resources Faster Than Ever
July 29 marks the point at which we start to consume more than the Earth can replenish. And this date is getting earlier each year.

Happy Overshoot Day unkotare. Last year I posted this on July 31st. This year Overshoot day falls 2 days sooner.

the point each year at which humanity starts to consume the world’s natural resources faster than they can be replenished.

It’s taken us only 209 days to burn through a year’s worth of resources — everything from food and timber to land and carbon. We are using up nature 1.75 times faster than it can be replenished. To do this sustainably, we would need the resources of 1.75 Earths.

These latest figures come from Global Footprint Network, an international nonprofit that calculates our annual ecological budget and the date at which we exceed it. Once we bust through this budget, we start devouring resources at an unsustainable rate.

“It’s a pyramid scheme,” said Mathis Wackernagel, CEO and founder of Global Footprint Network. “It depends on using more and more from the future to pay for the present.”

It’s like being in financial debt, only much harder to recover. “There’s nothing to kickstart the economy if we overuse our resources,” he said, “because every economic activity depends on natural capital, and without that, it’s not going to work.”

The burden of this ecological debt is getting heavier. We started overconsuming resources back in the 1970s, and since then it’s gotten progressively worse. Over the last 20 years, Earth Overshoot Day has crept forward by more than two months. And this year, it falls on the earliest date yet.

Forests are being felled at an alarming rate to provide timber and clear land for agriculture — two football fields’ worth of Amazon rainforest were cleared every minute in May. We are overexploiting water resources for industry and agriculture, and to provide drinking water for ever-expanding cities. And our addiction to fossil fuels means we are producing carbon emissions at levels that will push us further into dangerous temperature rises.

As with financial debt, we can only avoid the consequences for so long. The impact is already becoming frighteningly clear. Wildfires are becoming more frequent and more destructive. Cities around the world, from Cape Town to Chennai, are running out of water supplies, and a landmark U.N. biodiversity report published in May said up to 1 million species could go extinct thanks to human actions.

While the consequences are likely to affect poorer nations more starkly, it’s the populations of richer nations that live further beyond their means, according to the Global Footprint Network. If everyone lived like people in the United States, for example, we would need five Earths. If we all consumed resources at the same rate as people in India, we would only need seven-tenths of a planet to meet our demands.

Earth Overshoot Day Shows We're Tearing Through Resources Faster Than Ever | HuffPost

Now, you prove it.

What the hell is "a year's worth of Earth's resources?" How was that unit determined?" You do realize that technology increases the sum total of Earth's resources, don't you? If we were still using copper wires to make telephone calls over, copper would have been used up 20 years ago. Now we use fiber optic which is made from silica. The supply of silica is virtually infinite.


Your post is pure propaganda.

You get it. I see your next post. You understand overpopulation is real. Especially in cities like Baltimore.

Overpopulation is a problem, but not because we are running out of resources. Overpopulation impacts other species living on the planet, and 11 billion people on this planet is just plain too many. A reasonable number would be 2.5 billion.

But aren't we running out of resources because we are overpopulated?

How many land masses are run by dictators who won’t allow their resources to be properly maintained?

 

[sealybobo]

Earth Overshoot Day Shows We’re Tearing Through Resources Faster Than Ever
July 29 marks the point at which we start to consume more than the Earth can replenish. And this date is getting earlier each year.

Happy Overshoot Day unkotare. Last year I posted this on July 31st. This year Overshoot day falls 2 days sooner.

the point each year at which humanity starts to consume the world’s natural resources faster than they can be replenished.

It’s taken us only 209 days to burn through a year’s worth of resources — everything from food and timber to land and carbon. We are using up nature 1.75 times faster than it can be replenished. To do this sustainably, we would need the resources of 1.75 Earths.

These latest figures come from Global Footprint Network, an international nonprofit that calculates our annual ecological budget and the date at which we exceed it. Once we bust through this budget, we start devouring resources at an unsustainable rate.

“It’s a pyramid scheme,” said Mathis Wackernagel, CEO and founder of Global Footprint Network. “It depends on using more and more from the future to pay for the present.”

It’s like being in financial debt, only much harder to recover. “There’s nothing to kickstart the economy if we overuse our resources,” he said, “because every economic activity depends on natural capital, and without that, it’s not going to work.”

The burden of this ecological debt is getting heavier. We started overconsuming resources back in the 1970s, and since then it’s gotten progressively worse. Over the last 20 years, Earth Overshoot Day has crept forward by more than two months. And this year, it falls on the earliest date yet.

Forests are being felled at an alarming rate to provide timber and clear land for agriculture — two football fields’ worth of Amazon rainforest were cleared every minute in May. We are overexploiting water resources for industry and agriculture, and to provide drinking water for ever-expanding cities. And our addiction to fossil fuels means we are producing carbon emissions at levels that will push us further into dangerous temperature rises.

As with financial debt, we can only avoid the consequences for so long. The impact is already becoming frighteningly clear. Wildfires are becoming more frequent and more destructive. Cities around the world, from Cape Town to Chennai, are running out of water supplies, and a landmark U.N. biodiversity report published in May said up to 1 million species could go extinct thanks to human actions.

While the consequences are likely to affect poorer nations more starkly, it’s the populations of richer nations that live further beyond their means, according to the Global Footprint Network. If everyone lived like people in the United States, for example, we would need five Earths. If we all consumed resources at the same rate as people in India, we would only need seven-tenths of a planet to meet our demands.

Earth Overshoot Day Shows We're Tearing Through Resources Faster Than Ever | HuffPost

Now, you prove it.

What the hell is "a year's worth of Earth's resources?" How was that unit determined?" You do realize that technology increases the sum total of Earth's resources, don't you? If we were still using copper wires to make telephone calls over, copper would have been used up 20 years ago. Now we use fiber optic which is made from silica. The supply of silica is virtually infinite.


Your post is pure propaganda.

You get it. I see your next post. You understand overpopulation is real. Especially in cities like Baltimore.

Overpopulation is a problem, but not because we are running out of resources. Overpopulation impacts other species living on the planet, and 11 billion people on this planet is just plain too many. A reasonable number would be 2.5 billion.

But aren't we running out of resources because we are overpopulated?

How many land masses are run by dictators who won’t allow their resources to be properly maintained?

I don't know how many?

 

[bripat9643]

You first. You made the claim prove it's true. Otherwise it's bullshit.

Earth Overshoot Day Shows We’re Tearing Through Resources Faster Than Ever
July 29 marks the point at which we start to consume more than the Earth can replenish. And this date is getting earlier each year.

Happy Overshoot Day unkotare. Last year I posted this on July 31st. This year Overshoot day falls 2 days sooner.

the point each year at which humanity starts to consume the world’s natural resources faster than they can be replenished.

It’s taken us only 209 days to burn through a year’s worth of resources — everything from food and timber to land and carbon. We are using up nature 1.75 times faster than it can be replenished. To do this sustainably, we would need the resources of 1.75 Earths.

These latest figures come from Global Footprint Network, an international nonprofit that calculates our annual ecological budget and the date at which we exceed it. Once we bust through this budget, we start devouring resources at an unsustainable rate.

“It’s a pyramid scheme,” said Mathis Wackernagel, CEO and founder of Global Footprint Network. “It depends on using more and more from the future to pay for the present.”

It’s like being in financial debt, only much harder to recover. “There’s nothing to kickstart the economy if we overuse our resources,” he said, “because every economic activity depends on natural capital, and without that, it’s not going to work.”

The burden of this ecological debt is getting heavier. We started overconsuming resources back in the 1970s, and since then it’s gotten progressively worse. Over the last 20 years, Earth Overshoot Day has crept forward by more than two months. And this year, it falls on the earliest date yet.

Forests are being felled at an alarming rate to provide timber and clear land for agriculture — two football fields’ worth of Amazon rainforest were cleared every minute in May. We are overexploiting water resources for industry and agriculture, and to provide drinking water for ever-expanding cities. And our addiction to fossil fuels means we are producing carbon emissions at levels that will push us further into dangerous temperature rises.

As with financial debt, we can only avoid the consequences for so long. The impact is already becoming frighteningly clear. Wildfires are becoming more frequent and more destructive. Cities around the world, from Cape Town to Chennai, are running out of water supplies, and a landmark U.N. biodiversity report published in May said up to 1 million species could go extinct thanks to human actions.

While the consequences are likely to affect poorer nations more starkly, it’s the populations of richer nations that live further beyond their means, according to the Global Footprint Network. If everyone lived like people in the United States, for example, we would need five Earths. If we all consumed resources at the same rate as people in India, we would only need seven-tenths of a planet to meet our demands.

Earth Overshoot Day Shows We're Tearing Through Resources Faster Than Ever | HuffPost

Now, you prove it.

What the hell is "a year's worth of Earth's resources?" How was that unit determined?" You do realize that technology increases the sum total of Earth's resources, don't you? If we were still using copper wires to make telephone calls over, copper would have been used up 20 years ago. Now we use fiber optic which is made from silica. The supply of silica is virtually infinite.


Your post is pure propaganda.

You get it. I see your next post. You understand overpopulation is real. Especially in cities like Baltimore.

Overpopulation is a problem, but not because we are running out of resources. Overpopulation impacts other species living on the planet, and 11 billion people on this planet is just plain too many. A reasonable number would be 2.5 billion.

But aren't we running out of resources because we are overpopulated?

No. New technology expands our resources many fold. I already gave you the example of fiber optic replacing copper in phone lines. Eventually we will start mining asteroids and the moon, and then our resources will become virtually infinite

 

[Indeependent]

What the hell is "a year's worth of Earth's resources?" How was that unit determined?" You do realize that technology increases the sum total of Earth's resources, don't you? If we were still using copper wires to make telephone calls over, copper would have been used up 20 years ago. Now we use fiber optic which is made from silica. The supply of silica is virtually infinite.


Your post is pure propaganda.

You get it. I see your next post. You understand overpopulation is real. Especially in cities like Baltimore.

Overpopulation is a problem, but not because we are running out of resources. Overpopulation impacts other species living on the planet, and 11 billion people on this planet is just plain too many. A reasonable number would be 2.5 billion.

But aren't we running out of resources because we are overpopulated?

How many land masses are run by dictators who won’t allow their resources to be properly maintained?

I don't know how many?

South of the border, most Muslim nations, most of the African continent, Pakistan, India, most of China.
That’s billions of people currently starving due to Totalitarian leadership, constant wars, drug lords and tyrannical Mullahs.

 

[sealybobo]

You get it. I see your next post. You understand overpopulation is real. Especially in cities like Baltimore.

Overpopulation is a problem, but not because we are running out of resources. Overpopulation impacts other species living on the planet, and 11 billion people on this planet is just plain too many. A reasonable number would be 2.5 billion.

But aren't we running out of resources because we are overpopulated?

How many land masses are run by dictators who won’t allow their resources to be properly maintained?

I don't know how many?

South of the border, most Muslim nations, most of the African continent, Pakistan, India, most of China.
That’s billions of people currently starving due to Totalitarian leadership, constant wars, drug lords and tyrannical Mullahs.

I can't find the article right now but in it they explained how actually the USA uses up the most natural resources and if all those under developed countries were using theirs up like we do, we'd be in deep trouble.

 

[danielpalos]

Simple question before I head out to work. Do you believe in overpopulation, do you think it's a current problem or a very near future one, and what label would you use to identify yourself overall?

No. Malthus was discredited last millennium.

 

[Unkotare]

Fertility Rates Keep Dropping, and It’s Going to Hit the Economy Hard

Birth rates are dropping in First World countries, but the Third World is reproducing like rabbits.

incorrect

Read your own link. It supports what I said. They make a weak statement about Third world women beginning to get access to birth control but the birth rates are sky high as is evidenced by the women with 3 or 4 bloated belly kids in tow showing up for food relief.

https://lac.unfpa.org/sites/default...idad en ALC (jun 2018) version web inglés.pdf

 

[Unkotare]

...
Overpopulation is a problem,....

It was never anything but a false crisis.