{"id":36649,"date":"2018-08-14T08:44:02","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T13:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36649"},"modified":"2018-08-14T08:44:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T13:44:02","slug":"analysts-warn-were-running-out-of-resources-needed-to-sustain-life-on-our-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36649","title":{"rendered":"Analysts Warn We\u2019re Running Out of Resources Needed to Sustain Life on Our Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/running-out-of-resources-to-sustain-life\/\">Analysts Warn We\u2019re Running Out of Resources Needed to Sustain Life on Our Planet<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"m-f\"><\/div>\n<p>Have you ever heard of Earth Overshoot Day? No? Neither had I. It\u2019s 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 of the year, we\u2019re living on borrowed resources.<\/p>\n<p>It reminds me of the economy and quantitative easing. There\u2019s only so far we can push it until there\u2019s nothing left from which to borrow. While the analysts say this is all related to climate change, a theory that many find dubious, one thing is absolutely certain \u2013 they\u2019re right about the looming shortage of resources. And a lot of it is because Westerners are so incredibly wasteful as a society.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Water<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Look at water, for example. Droughts have stricken us here in parts of the United States for years, and blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/we-are-seeing-heat-and-drought-in-the-southwest-united-states-like-we-havent-seen-since-the-dust-bowl-of-the-1930s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Snyder has suggested<\/a> it could quickly lead to a return to Dustbowl conditions similar to those of the 1930s. South Africa has barely managed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-safrica-drought\/cape-town-day-zero-pushed-back-to-2019-as-dams-fill-up-in-south-africa-idUSKCN1HA1LN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">push back Day Zero<\/a>, the day in which Cape Town runs completely out of water, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/water-restrictions-cape-town\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">using stringent rationing methods<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Even parts of the US that aren\u2019t in drought conditions are seeing frequent water crises, with algae blooms, toxic run-off, chemical spills, and tainted municipal water. Doesn\u2019t it seem to you that these things are happening a lot more often?<\/p>\n<p>The global water shortage is coming fast.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0At this point, approximately 40 percent of the entire population of the planet has little or no access to clean water, and it is being projected that by 2025 two-thirds of humanity will live in \u201cwater-stressed\u201d areas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysts Warn We\u2019re Running Out of Resources Needed to Sustain Life on Our Planet Have you ever heard of Earth Overshoot Day? No? Neither had I. It\u2019s 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[150,6156,3197,4932,5756,21214],"class_list":["post-36649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-collapse","tag-daisy-luther","tag-overshoot","tag-overshoot-and-collapse","tag-the-organic-prepper","tag-world-overshoot-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36650,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36649\/revisions\/36650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}