self extinction

[WhatTheHey]

Your not going to like the answer... LOL

    Well! Don't buy anything without double checking that safety seal!  Wow, what a bunch of sick depraved jerks. 

[Sgt.Rocknroll]

Yeah bud, I knew the answer. 

[space otter]

we really are doomed ..stupid is winning

well hell i knew humans have been dumbed down but sooooo many of them...? ! ? !

these folks can only acquire followers as f**kin stupid as they are

and when i headed this thread self extinction  i was going in what i thought was an intellegent direction        

bwhahahahaha

i've had enough   i'm taking my beer and cheez-its to the garden and let the mosquitoes drain my blood
good bye cruel world

[Ellirium113]

Self extinction is coming on ALL FRONTS.

well hell i knew humans have been dumbed down but sooooo many of them...? ! ? !

these folks can only acquire followers as f**kin stupid as they are

and when i headed this thread self extinction  i was going in what i thought was an intellegent direction     

[space otter]

i didn't know we had an earth overshoot day..but the info makes sense...maybe it answers " a question for all "

I see all this as being a distraction to keep our attention drawn away from some other issue, but what?

who has to do anything to us..we're doing it to ourselves.....sigh

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/earth-overshoot-day-natural-resources-july_n_5d39a020e4b004b6adbbd643?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaHVmZnBvc3QuY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHZWDq0t1riP93ypPKkLorw2Q5viLdod-enff5avY8IO02U2Bd82oBQk5cvO4m8kJueaK2y8x3cflkkYkxn7vP_Tz-GTC1pYNU8GWQjQx9Qsp88WtsfWLX5s3bdrIx8YwYFxw9QqAhB9T_J6Z_mnz_LiRpiVrOtHcsChy_j-Q2Q4


IMPACT 07/29/2019 05:45 am ET Updated 3 hours ago
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.
headshot
By Laura Paddison


vid at link

On July 29, we cross an alarming threshold. This date marks Earth Overshoot Day, 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.

GLOBAL FOOTPRINT NETWORK
"It's a pyramid scheme," Mathis Wackernagel, founder of Global Footprint Network, said of humans' overconsumption of Earth's resources. "It depends on using more and more from the future to pay for the present."
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.

It's an untenable situation, and one that will not continue indefinitely, Wackernagel said. Whether it stops through disaster or by design is up to us.

Wackernagel blames the current inaction on the failure of politicians and economists to understand that the economy depends on, and is inextricably linked to, natural resources. Instead, the tendency is to treat environmental considerations as secondary, rather than fundamental to the economy's ability to survive. But the costs of ignoring them will be huge, he said.

"So as long as, for example in the United States, the Trump government doesn't think climate action is a great investment for the United States, they will do anything they can to avoid the topic," he said.

Global Footprint Network has launched a campaign to end Earth Overshoot Day for good, aiming to conserve enough resources to move the date later by five days each year — so that by 2050, we can live within the resources of one Earth.

vid with this

Christiana Figueres
✔
@CFigueres
This year's Earth Overshoot Day will be July 29th. We can #MoveTheDate – 5 days a year, so that humanity will be using less than one planet before 2050.  This is our mission to @EndOvershoot.

The organization has identified several areas in which we can reduce consumption: more efficient and low-carbon city design; moving away from fossil fuels, which make up the biggest share of our overall footprint; fixing the broken food system; and protecting nature through regenerative agriculture and large-scale conservation.

Overpopulation is also a key pressure point, Wackernagel said, adding that one of the best solutions is to provide women and girls with the same educational and economic opportunities offered to men.

"It's not about sacrifice," Wackernagel said. "It's all about investing in a future where our next generation, our children, can thrive. There are tons of solutions possible with very high impact. Again, the question is, do we want them?"

For more content and to be part of the "This New World" community, follow our Facebook page.

HuffPost's "This New World" series is funded by Partners for a New Economy and the Kendeda Fund. All content is editorially independent, with no influence or input from the foundations. If you have an idea or tip for the editorial series, send an email to thisnewworld@huffpost.com.

RELATED COVERAGE

[Ellirium113]

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.

I find this to be nothing more than doom porn. I would agree that perhaps SOME resources are depleting faster...but I don't feel it is a matter of over consumption but a matter of poor utilization of available resources. There are empty cities in China, stores throwing out stock that won't sell, companies hoarding products to drive up the price.
There is no shortage of timber, there is no shortage of carbon, there is no shortage of oil, gas, gold, steel etc. Any existing shortages might be a matter of economic hardship vs. the resource not being there. For example the company I work for is a mine. They have vast resources and hardly developed a majority of their ore deposits into mines as they are waiting for when it becomes economically feasible. Many items can already be synthesized or have alternative products so while the report might suggest the sky is falling I am not holding my breath for it to hit me on the head anytime soon. 

[space otter]

Ellirium

i like the way you think and i also agree that almost everything i have posted lately could be labeled doom porn (no you didn't say that.. but i have recognized it more than once..no one said anything though.. sigh)

thanks for your opinion.. you have made me surrender

i used to be  mostly positive and believe that we humans would figure it out...obviously we are in no hurry..

BUT

i have had to limit reading on line and news feds..but then i read this stuff and want to see what anyone else has to say - so i post it .. but everyone is quiet
or totally not interested..

so thanks for stating how you feel.. you've made my day

i'll try more to be pollyanna again