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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[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

What is this LIB nonsense?

"Calculate YOUR ecological footprint! What can YOU do to fix it? (hint: it's give us $20 and buy our book)" fuck off.

The most impactful thing you could do for climate change involves the use of a gundam and the stomach to do a lot of gruesome crimes on a specifc 0.1% of the global population. That would be illegal, and I could never advocate for that.

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[-] Moidialectica@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

Question: does 1 earth of resources make it equal, where it replenishes whatevers taken?

if so, I'm surprised we aren't using even more, I would've thought we are using 18 earth's.

[-] 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.

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

No way it's that low.

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