TIL humans are using 1.8 Earths worth of resources (www.footprintnetwork.org)

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The Ecological Footprint metric shows how much nature we use compared to how much nature we have.

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[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

I think, it doesn't include resources that we don't deem renewable in the first place? So, coal, gas, uranium etc. will just run out in the not-too-distant future and that is a problem, but a separate problem.

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