By 2050, with a projected population of 10 billion people and without a change in consumption patterns, the cumulative use of natural resources will amount to the productivity of up to 27 planet Earths.

Earth’s Systems in Rapid Decline (via kateoplis)

Meanwhile: Debt-ceiling deal passes, wildlands, environment to suffer

(via freudianflips)

To put this in perspective a bit, if the world population lived like Americans do now, we would need 5 planet Earths to sustain consumption. Consumption patterns have been increasingly relying on more rather than less. In order to curb our irresponsibly abundant lifestyles, we’re going to need to cut back… a lot.

(via mohandasgandhi)

(via solitaryforager)

∞  12/03/11
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