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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."
Nice twist of words jackass. Growth is growth. There are more people being born than dying. Until that changes growth is accelerating. The percentages may have changed, but that doesn't over rule that there are more people alive today than there were 50 years ago and there will be even more people in 50 years. Go back to school.
How about almost every climatology study done in the last forty years?
I tell you what. If you don't think AGW is real, why don't you explain where all the energy being absorbed by CO2 in the atmosphere is going. Are you advocating the "magic heat sink back into space" theory?
What do you think trees and other plants breath? What do you think the earth did before humans existed when a volcano erupted spewing many times more so-called "greenhouse" gasses into the atmosphere?
If you are really paranoid about this stuff, go out there and plant some more trees. Or shut the hell up.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.