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Starting from this moment, a person lives on the planet, roughly saying a loan. In just seven months and thirteen days to earthlings managed to use up all the resources that we relied on year.
Experts have calculated how much resources a person spends annually. It turned out that every year earth technologies allow faster and faster retrieval of the assigned norm, thanks to which significant damage to the planet.
Since the seventies of the last century, an international group specialists who are employees of the Global Footprint project Network, “calculated how many resources a person can receive from the planet every year so that these resources are fully replenished volume. This year, as reported, this amount has been exhausted in Thursday, August 13th, six days earlier than in 2014 year. The rate of waste of land resources is set taking into account the most various parameters. This includes mining harmful emissions into the atmosphere, deforestation, use fertile soil, hunting, fishing and so on.
According to scientists, the biggest problem is not increasing scarcity of resources, and in that humanity incapable of maintaining it in the long run. According to estimates specialists, today earthlings spend 1.6 times more resources, than the planet is able to give with their full replenishment. If none measures on this issue will not be taken, then through for fifteen years, overconsumption will grow up to two times. Many civilized countries have already moved on – for example, the United The kingdom now consumes three times more resources than it relies.
Some specialists who are not particularly optimistic claim that in terms of excessive resource consumption humanity has already passed the point of no return, and now the situation will be only get worse. It has been suggested that the Amazonian forests, the importance of which for our planet cannot be overestimated, will destroyed in the next forty years. And this is only the beginning of our the end …
