Today is Earth Overshoot Day
The Global Footprint Network performs the public service of calculating how rapidly we are drawing... The post Today is Earth Overshoot Day first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
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We only have one Earth, and we’re overshooting its capacity
As our burgeoning demands on the Earth continue to overshoot its capacity to renew resources, it’s time for a serious rethink, argues David Suzuki. Basically, we’re “using up the biological…
On Growth and Its Limits
George Monbiot offers a fascinating insight in the wake of last week’s United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in Rio de Janeiro. While rightly deriding the declaration adopted by…