We’ve Already Used Up Earth’s Resources For 2016 — And It’s Only August

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/earth-overshoot-day-2016_us_57a4258fe4b056bad2151b49?section=&

We’ve failed again.

It’s less than eight months into 2016 and the ominous day is already nearly upon us: Earth Overshoot Day, previously known as Ecological Debt Day, is a reminder of the enormous toll we take on the Earth.

The day marks the juncture when humanity’s demand for ecological resources exceeds what the planet can replenish annually. In 2016, it falls on Monday, which means people have already consumed an entire year’s worth of the world’s resources ― and we still have four months to go until the year’s end.

For the rest of 2016, we’ll be “living on resources borrowed from future generations,” as the World Wildlife Fund pointed out when we failed last year.

Troublingly, this year’s Overshoot Day is happening earlier than ever before.

[FLPanhandle]

1. Too many humans on the planet

It'll get worse and worse

[villager]

2. These are the "real issues" that neither party is actually/adequately addressing

Sure, the Democrats give better lip service, and do some tinkering around the edges.

But these collective bills are coming due quite soon.