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Earth’s natural resources will run out in four days
Published: 18 August, 2010, 09:24
Edited: 25 August, 2010, 14:57
TAGS: Ecology
On August 21, people will deplete all resources given by nature, according to the independent international organization Global Footprint Network, which works on tools for advancing sustainability.
People have used up water, fish from seas and lakes, crops and the gifts of the forest. Moreover, space for keeping waste products is also running out. After all the resources are finished on August 22, mankind can be declared bankrupt.
Italian scientist Roberto Brambilla says that reducing the impact on environment doesn’t require so much: just eating less meat, sometimes using bicycles or the subway instead of cars, and using renewable energy. People should also follow Chinese and Hindu examples by trying to use only what is necessary.
Planet Earth would have to be one-and-a-half times bigger to meet the demands of mankind, concludes the organization.
Earlier, WWF scientists warned that besides the recent global economic and food crisis, the Earth could also face a water and major ecological crisis. Due to technological developments, humans have started to use more natural reserves than nature can give.
A 100 percent deficit of resources is awaited in 30 years, and could lead to a global catastrophe. If people don’t change their way of life, “another planet will be needed,” said the scientists.
The report has been prepared by group of specialists headed by Gianfranco Bologna. The research showed that something abnormal is going on with the Earth since 1986. In 2005 it was calculated that natural resources are being used 30 percent more than nature can give. Moreover, the number of vertebrates has been reduced by 30 percent.
18.08.2010, 08:24
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Man's too obvious Greed +Selfishness?..In fact just a few days ago, you yourselves were boasting that you had more 'Oligarchs' per square inch in Russia than anywhere else on the planet...Sadly, their all too vast fortunes have, not only, impoverished millions of (arguably more deserving ), people around the world but shortened the lives of their own offspring, apparently?....They really shouldn't squander all of it though..Pyramids aren't going to pay for themselves.
It is claims like this why no one takes WWF seriously. They only sit and wait for natural disasters to push their nonsense. They need people to die so they can sell their "I told you so's". How about some real environmentalists that are concerned with pollution and run off, over fishing, and other various problems. There are sollutions to problems other than backpaddling and creating taxes.
This article is BS and has no reality or credibility to it. Many men has prophesied the end of days for humans countless times through out history. Seeing as I am writing this, they have all been wrong. Maybe there could be a layer of truth or reality that could be accepted in this if our species had no natural desire to technologically advance from day to day. What seems like a lot of energy today was an unimaginable amount 100 years ago. I believe that in a short period of time, maybe 50 years, maybe 100, our species will create technologies and ideas that will give us essentially unlimited energy. Using this energy to produce an endless supply of ideally clean water, massive hydroponic farms and basically no 'pollution'. Burning fossil fuels is no pollution just as many other things are not, were simply taking these substances and removing them from the Earth. There is no such thing as the destruction of this planet, we are part of this planets eco-system. Although it may seem unfair how some species on Earth are far weaker and less intelligent than we are, that is life and a similar ebb and flow can be found within our own species. This is reality.