when the global population’s demand exceeds the amount of resources that Earth can produce for the year.and yet here we are...
Posted on 08/02/2017 4:33:52 PM PDT by Prov1322
The earliest-ever Earth Overshoot Day on Aug. 2, 2017, means that humans are pushing the planet to its ecological limit at an accelerated pace.
Previously known as Ecological Debt Day, it’s when the global population’s demand exceeds the amount of resources that Earth can produce for the year. The date has slowly crept up from Dec. 21 in 1971.
“Most people think it’s relevant to know how much they earn and spend,” said Dr. Mathis Wackernagel, CEO of the Global Footprint Network and co-creator of the Ecological Footprint.
The Ecological Footprint, discovered in the 1990s, is the only metric that measures how much of nature's resources we use and how much we currently have.
“We can spend twice as much as we earn for some time, [but] even if your fortune is big, it’s going to go down,” Wackernagel told AccuWeather.
(Excerpt) Read more at accuweather.com ...
Here's a gem from the end of the piece...
“The rest of corporate America is saying it doesn’t make much sense for us to live in a dystopian world,” said Jeffrey Gracer, principal of Sive, Paget and Riesel, which was the first environmental law firm in the U.S.
“We’re not going to be able to do business in a world where there’s no water, where it’s 130 degrees and we can’t fly airplanes; that’s simply not going to work,” said Gracer.
Makes me think this genius got his degree from the AlGore Charm School of Law, Climate, Earth Worship and Cypherin'...
And then there's Wackernagel...
I burned a lot of charcoal today grilling some big beef steaks. So I am doing my part.
What do you think of that, eco lurkers?!
“CEO of the Global Footprint Network “
Hey Doc.........do something useful........Go Track BIGFOOT!
Accuweather?? No wonder Joe Bastardi left them.
Really?
Where did they go?
Oh wait, they’re still here!
when the global population’s demand exceeds the amount of resources that Earth can produce for the year.and yet here we are...
I’ve got an old high school acquaintance who does voice-over work for them. He’s a raging lib.
“Most people think it’s relevant to know how much they earn and spend,” said Dr. Mathis Wackernagel
...
Wackernagel.
SINNERS!! You should all off yourselves!!
The Global Warmist Scaremongers’ message is not getting through.
They are going to have to come up with some really really really scary predictions.
People will be baked by the sun and drop dead on the street.
The last human beings will live in a colony on the top of Mt. Everest as the oceans continue to rise.
Come on, guys, you can be much scarier if you try.
Yum!
And in spite of it we’re not experiencing widespread starvation EXCEPT in Venezuela which has the type of government that the leftist wa t to inflict on us. With them in charge of course that why they’ve come totally unglued from reality she Hitlery lost
What do you think of that, eco lurkers?!
Man you didt do nuffin!
Me, I was out burning tires......the air was full of black!
BLack is beautiful!
Black tires matter.
Ashley Williams, AccuWeather staff writer is a Gorebull Warming poster boy and a #1 “Intellectual-Yet-Idiot”!! Beside Gorebull Warming BS, he is telling us what to and how to live our lives based on Intellectual Yet Idiot fake data posing as data.
Our Governments, Universities/Colleges and many businesses/corporations are controlled and operated by the Intellectual Yet Idiots, who have been controlling our lives for decades. These Intellectual Yet Idiots control our media and most of DC and many states down to the county/city level.
Nassim Taleb Exposes The World’s “Intellectual-Yet-Idiot” Class!
What we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think… and 5) who to vote for.
But the problem is the one-eyed following the blind: these self-described members of the “intelligenzia” can’t find a coconut in Coconut Island, meaning they aren’t intelligent enough to define intelligence and fall into circularities?—?, but their main skills is ability to pass exams written by people like them.
With psychology papers replicating less than 40%, dietary advice reversing after 30 years of fatphobia, macroeconomic analysis working worse than astrology, the appointment of Bernanke who was less than clueless of the risks, and pharmaceutical trials replicating at best only 1/3th of the time, people are perfectly entitled to rely on their own ancestral instinct and listen to their grandmothers (or Montaigne and such filtered classical knowledge) with a better track record than these policymaking goons.
What we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think… and 5) who to vote for.
But the problem is the one-eyed following the blind: these self-described members of the “intelligenzia” can’t find a coconut in Coconut Island, meaning they aren’t intelligent enough to define intelligence and fall into circularities?—?but their main skills is capacity to pass exams written by people like them.
With psychology papers replicating less than 40%, dietary advice reversing after 30 years of fatphobia, macroeconomic analysis working worse than astrology, the appointment of Bernanke who was less than clueless of the risks, and pharmaceutical trials replicating at best only 1/3th of the time, people are perfectly entitled to rely on their own ancestral instinct and listen to their grandmothers (or Montaigne and such filtered classical knowledge) with a better track record than these policymaking goons.
Indeed one can see that these academico-bureaucrats wanting to run our lives aren’t even rigorous, whether in medical statistics or policymaking. They can’t tell science from scientism?—?in fact in their eyes scientism looks more scientific than real science. (For instance it is trivial to show the following: much of what the Cass-Sunstein-Richard Thaler types?—?those who want to “nudge” us into some behavior?—?much of what they call “rational” or “irrational” comes from their misunderstanding of probability theory and cosmetic use of first-order models.)
This is an excerpt. To read or copy the full article go to the link below:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-16/nassim-taleb-exposes-worlds-intellectual-yet-idiot-
Why wasn’t I notified so I could panic?
Airplanes can’t fly when it’s 130 degrees? How does Emirates Airways stay in business? /s;)
100%
It stops cycling? Really? No more water cycle. Huh. Whoda thunk it.
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