Here is the challenge that keeps me awake nights. We are in ecological overshoot. The Earth can sustain indefinitely the consumption and waste of the US for half a billion people. We need 1.4 Earths to sustain current levels of human consumption and waste. We need 4-5 additional planets if we intend for everyone on Earth to aspire to the US way of life. We will add 2-3 billion people to the planet in the next 40 years.
This is the very definition of non-sustainability. We are beyond overshoot,…
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Added by Margaret Swedish on January 31, 2009 at 9:39pm —
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