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Earth's Resources Used Up at Quickest Rate Ever in 2016 (france24.com)
An anonymous reader writes: In just over seven months, humanity has used up a full year's allotment of natural resources such as water, food and clean air -- the quickest rate yet, according to a new report. The point of "overshoot" will officially be reached on Monday, said environmental group Global Footprint Network -- five days earlier than last year. "We continue to grow our ecological debt," said Pascal Canfin of green group WWF, reacting to the annual update. "From Monday August 8, we will be living on credit because in eight months we would have consumed the natural capital that our planet can renew in a year."
Don't know about you, but I went through my year's supply of frozen Hot Pockets and Snickers bars back in late July. We're doomed, I say, doomed.
Nature occasionally killed nearly every living thing on the planet.
Mankind has never done that. So who's really the evil doer here? I suggest we kill nature as quickly as possible. It's the only way to save the living things on this planet. It's practically self defense.
Now the fun bit. It's too late to do anything about it. We passed the point of no return back in the 1990s. It's a genuine "bend over and kiss your ass goodbye" situation.
And the good news... Many of us will be dead by 2040-2050 when it starts to get nasty tho we may see some signs as early as 2035 (I'll be 74 then-- my most likely lifespan is to 2038).
Don't be so pessimistic - at the rate medical science is advancing, you'll be able to live well into the apocalypse!
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Our cities on the coastlines (where we've historically loved building cities) will get flooded.
You had me at LA gets flooded. Makes me want to buy a hummer right now. That applies to both the city in California as well as the state in the South.