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Footprint, Part 2. Greenhouse Affect #15. May 29, 2019.

Part 1 here.

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2923 - La Terre va-t-elle s’arrêter de tourner après le 1er août ?

2923 – La Terre va-t-elle s’arrêter de tourner après le 1er août ?

  30 juillet 2018 – Aurélien Boutaud & Natacha Gondran  – the conversation.com  

C’est devenu un rituel estival. Un peu comme la fête de la Musique ou le Tour de France. Chaque été, au mois d’août, alors que les Français n’aspirent qu’à profiter de leurs vacances, une information dramatique se met à circuler dans les médias : le Jour du dépassement écologique est arrivé !

À partir de cette date…

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For the past decade, much attention has been paid to Greece’s public finances. And when, in November, the country faced the first review of its reform progress under its latest agreement with its creditors – an exercise required to obtain a new infusion of bailout funds – its budget deficit was put under the microscope once again.

But Greeks would do well to consider another type of deficit – one that has received far less public scrutiny, but could have economic consequences that are just as serious. Like the rest of the Mediterranean region (and indeed the entire world), Greece is not just running a fiscal deficit; it is also running an ecological one.

According to our analysis, Mediterranean countries currently use 2.5 times more ecological resources and services than their ecosystems can renew. Greece, for example, would need the total ecological resources and services of three Greeces in order to meet its citizens’ demand on nature for food, fiber, timber, housing, urban infrastructure, and carbon sequestration. Athens alone demands 22% more from nature than the entire country’s ecosystems can provide. And, after years of recession during which pressure on Greece’s natural resources declined, demand has begun to rise again, as GDP growth has shown some improvement.

To enable lasting economic progress, we need to break this link between GDP growth and overuse of the environment. Ecological deficits can jeopardize energy sources and threaten food security, with direct social and economic consequences. If Greece and other countries are to ensure the health and prosperity of their citizens in the decades to come, they will have to find a way to prevent current economic activity from increasing an already unsustainable burden of environmental debt.

For that to happen, ecological resources must come to be viewed as valuable endowments to be managed wisely. The Mediterranean region’s unique, breathtaking natural capital is one of its greatest assets – the reason why more than 200 million tourists flock to the region each year, feeding the region’s economy. Overusing resources, or even failing to manage them carefully, inevitably saps the region’s economic strength.

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Earth Overshoot Day 2014 is 19th August

Earth Overshoot Day 2014 is 19th August

It has taken less than eight months for humanity to use up nature’s entire budget for the year and go into ecological overshoot, according to data from Global Footprint Network, – last year it fell on August 20th. Global Footprint Network tracks humanity’s demand on the planet (Ecological Footprint) against nature’s biocapacity, i.e., its ability to replenish the planet’s resources and absorb…

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IMPACTUL ECOLOGIC al omului isi spune cuvantul! PAMANTUL ne suporta din ce in ce mai GREU!

Pamantul ne suporta din ce in ce mai greu din cauza impactului ecologic al omului, care consuma resurse si produce dioxid de carbon (CO2), principalul gaz cu efect de sera, intr-un ritm cu 44 la suta mai ridicat decat poate produce si absorbi natura.

PAMANTUL ESTE GOL! CEA MAI MISTERIOASA TEORIE A OMENIRII, CONFIRMATA DE UN RESPONSABIL DE LA NASA!

PRIMELE IMAGINI CU PAMANTUL VAZUT DE PE MARTE!…

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From BCSEA:

Join us for a BCSEA Webinar, starting at noon Pacific time (3:00 PM EDT) with Mathis Wackernagel, co-founder of the ecological footprint concept, and co-winner with Professor Bill Rees of the prestigious 2012 Blue Planet Prize. 

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Mathis Wackernagel, Ph. D. is co-creator of the Ecological Footprint and President of Global Footprint Network, an international sustainability think-tank which focuses on bringing about a sustainable human economy in which all can live well within the means of one planet.

Mathis has worked on sustainability on six continents and lectured at more than a hundred universities. He previously served as the director of the Sustainability Program at Redefining Progress in Oakland, California, and ran the Centro de Estudios para la Sustentabilidad at Anáhuac University in Xalapa, Mexico.

He has authored or contributed to over 50 peer-reviewed papers, numerous reports and various books on sustainability that focus on embracing limits and developing metrics for sustainability.

More here.

Related:

'2012 Blue Planet Prize Winners Offer Hope for Greener World' (National Geographic

(Infographic source: Global Footprint Network)