Humans will need two Earths, report claims

[boise1]

Global ‘footprint’ left by consumption is growing, conservationists argue

MSNBC staff and news service reports
Updated: 53 minutes ago

BEIJING - Humans are stripping nature at an unprecedented rate and will need two planets' worth of natural resources every year by 2050 if current trends continue, according to a report published Tuesday by the World Wildlife Fund and the Global Footprint Network.

"For more than 20 years we have exceeded the Earth's ability to support a consumptive lifestyle that is unsustainable and we cannot afford to continue down this path," WWF Director-General James Leape said in releasing the 2006 Living Planet Report in Beijing.

"If everyone around the world lived as those in America, we would need five planets to support us," Leape added.

Largely because of its huge per capita emissions of carbon dioxide — a gas many scientists tie to global warming — the United Arab Emirates were placing the most stress per capita on the planet ahead of the United States, Finland, Canada.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15398149/

[valerief]

1. Just thank those SUV drivers and pickup truck drivers. nt

[Double T]

2. ALL Americans had better start LEARNING to live a much simpler lifestyle......

or IT will be forced on 'US'. IT can no longer be put off. OVERPOPULATION is the MAIN PROBLEM that ONLY continues to become WORSE.

[The2ndWheel]

3. It's nice to know

But since we're not going to stop, who cares? Nothing comes for free, so if we all want more, we'll have to face this problem. Since very few even want to consider doing with "less", what's going to change?

Not only that, but we now have more people around the planet not only wanting, but expecting more.

Everyone can't have everything. Which to me is the problem with progress. It can only go so far. We still do have limits. We don't really care about them, but they do exist.

[focusfan]

4. We should slow down having babies

planet is over populated

[The Stranger]

5. SUPPORT ZERO POPULATION GROWTH.

Get that fucking imbecile in the Vatican to support birth control. Save the planet from the other imbecile in the White House.

[Double T]

6. GREAT STATEMENT!!!

[90-percent]

7. My plan

I'll be dead. Leave it to those damned unborn to deal with it. Greedy little creeps.

Oh, thanks for paying back the debt on our two billion a week war, you yet to be conceived little bastards.

-85% jimmy

[kestrel91316]

8. Not to worry. We're going to Mars. It has lots of natural resources,

according to Bush. So there's the second planet.

[Double T]

9. Martians were way ahead of 'US'; THEY already used up ALL......

of Mars resources and NOW it is a dead planet. 'Mars' is OUR FUTURE!!