Yesterday humanity’s annual demand on nature exceeds what Earth can renew in a year. In just 7 months and 20 days, we have demanded a level of ecological resources and services — from food and raw materials to sequestering carbon dioxide from fossil fuel emissions — equivalent to what Earth can regenerate for all of 2013. Humanity has exhausted nature’s budget for the year. Thus for the rest of the year, we are operating in overshoot. Lesson here!
In 1961, humanity used only about two-thirds of Earth’s available ecological resources. Back then, most countries had ecological reserves. Not the Dutch however they were already way off the scale then, already consuming more than five times the size of NL for decades. Probably ITC's occupation of the Twentec towers added quite a bit to the glocbal resource depletion. With our new eco-building we have redeemed ourselves a bit until the day Niek Renger's Energy Mirror cracked. Now we have started to bring letters by car from the post office to Drienerlo to ITC, mailordering individual staples from Staples and we bring 150 students to 50 teachers.
2012 National Footprint Accounts (boring) show humanity is now using ecological resources and services at a rate it would take just over 1.5 Earths to renew. We are on track to require the resources of two Earths well before mid-century. So we should Act. We can turn the tide (hahahahaha LOL ROFL). DOOM! Ladies and Gentlemen, DOOM. noting else awaits us. Before we are shipped to a harsh and efficient Campus location the Eco-creditors of the Earth (those guys having the Amazon or lots of pine trees) will have depleted themselves as well and there is nothing left for us to do than perish. We will make an effort to grow our own tofu in the garden, rice and fish from the pond, forget beef, forget coffee (Ricoffee rations will be imported by students).
Sorry, but it's only reality.
