
From the report: "Humanity’s demand on the planet has more than doubled over the past 45 years as a result of population growth and increasing individual consumption. In 1961, almost all countries in the world had more than enough capacity to meet their own demand; by 2005, the situation had changed radically, with many countries able to meet their needs only by importing resources from other nations and by using the global atmosphere as a dumping ground for carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. In an overexploited world, ecological debtor nations are particularly at risk from local and global overshoot, and from the associated decline in ecosystem services, the life support system on which humanity depends". Not so hopeful i know. I found very interesting the Ecological Footprint of Nations, index measuring humanity's demand of the biosphere in area of biologically productive land and sea required to provide the resources we use and to absorb our waste. Winner as the worst of the planet's enemies is the United Arab Emirates, 2nd United States of America, 3rd Kuwait, 4th Denmark (?!?!?!), 5th Australia, than New Zealand, Canada, Norway, Estonia, Ireland, Greece, Italy (28th), Germany (34th), Mexico (43th), Brazil (65th), China (74th)....Right away after you can see another graphic showing the Bio-Capacity per Person by County. In this case Gabon is the champion, Canada is the 2nd, Bolivia, Australia, Mongolia, New Zeland...
Another very interesting index is the Water Footprint of Consumption that is the total volume of water used globally to produce the goods and services consumed by its inhabitants. It includes water withdrawn from rivers, lakes and aquifers (surface and ground water) that is used in agriculture, industry and for domestic purposes, as well as the water from rainfall that is used to grow crops: 1st United States, 2nd Greece, 3rd Malaysia, 4th Italy, 5th Spain....
Honestly, you can find in the report many others very interesting informations, and above all you can start and individuate the countries more responsible for these last disastrous 40 years. WWF confirm that the bad causes of the environment damages are recently created by humans, that's why, again, changing, we can gift our kids with a better world, or at least with a world. Thank you for your time and attention.
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