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Analysts Warn We’re Running Out of Resources Needed to Sustain Life on Our Planet

Analysts Warn We’re Running Out of Resources Needed to Sustain Life on Our Planet Have you ever heard of Earth Overshoot Day? No? Neither had I. It’s the day each year that we use up the resources that can be renewed within that year. This year, it was on August 1st, so for the rest […]

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Our Economy is a Degenerative System

Our Economy is a Degenerative System Impacts of resource hungry exploitative economies “What is 120 times the size of London? The answer: the land or ecological footprint required to supply London’s needs.” — Herbert Giradet Our ecological footprint exceeds the Earth’s capacity to regenerate. A number of useful indicators and frameworks have been developed to measure the […]

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Paul Ehrlich: ‘Collapse of civilisation is a near certainty within decades’

Paul Ehrlich: ‘Collapse of civilisation is a near certainty within decades’ Fifty years after the publication of his controversial book The Population Bomb, biologist Paul Ehrlich warns overpopulation and overconsumption are driving us over the edge The toxification of the planet with synthetic chemicals may be more dangerous to people and wildlife than climate change, […]

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Commentary on Bounding the Planetary Future: Why We Need a Great Transition

Commentary on Bounding the Planetary Future: Why We Need a Great Transition  “Planetary boundaries” research constitutes an important advance in our ability to identify and quantify the components of global overshoot. Permit me to suggest that all presentations on planetary boundaries should include a discussion of Liebig’s Law—an ecological truism that can be boiled down to “a […]

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