The land is ecological debt in fact, September 25, 2009 humanity will have fully used all the renewable resources that nature can provide in 2009. This was stated by the Global Footprint Network, a group of important research that measures how much natural resources we have, how much we use and their users. In short, the demand for resources and services by humanity is greater than the regenerative capacity of the Earth .
According to the Global Footprint Network we are using the global natural regeneration capacity of 1.4 planets, but obviously we only have one available .
The Earth Overshoot Day falls exactly 80 days before the leaders meet in Copenhagen (COP15) to address the main consequence of our over-consumption environment. Our carbon footprint compared to (the amount of land and sea it takes to absorb all the CO2 that we produce as calculated by the Global Footprint Network) has increased by 1000% since 1961. CO2 emissions amount to more than half of our over-consumption of nature. We are now entering a lot more CO2 than Earth's ecosystem can neutralize and then it is accumulating in the atmosphere causing climate change.
Individuals can determine their ecological footprint and learn how to reduce www.footprintnetwork.org : they could make a great contribution to trying to influence their governments and community leaders to create a low environmental impact by intelligent planning infrastructure and the best green technology available
(extracted from www.retelilliput.org )
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