{"id":81083,"date":"2018-07-31T08:42:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T15:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/yes-humans-are-depleting-earths-resources-but-footprint-estimates-dont-tell-the-full-story"},"modified":"2018-08-04T10:01:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T17:01:36","slug":"yes-humans-are-depleting-earths-resources-but-footprint-estimates-dont-tell-the-full-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/yes-humans-are-depleting-earths-resources-but-footprint-estimates-dont-tell-the-full-story","title":{"rendered":"Yes, humans are depleting Earth\u2019s resources, but \u2018footprint\u2019 estimates don\u2019t tell the full story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_T5M3MiPfW4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Experts widely agree that human activities are harming the global environment. Since the Industrial Revolution, the world economy has grown dramatically. Overall this is a success story, since rising incomes have lifted millions of people out of poverty. But it has been fueled by population growth and increasing consumption of natural resources.<\/p>\n<p>Rising demand to meet the needs of more than 7 billion people has transformed land use and generated unprecedented levels of pollution, affecting biodiversity, forests, wetlands, water bodies, soils and air quality.<\/p>\n<p>On August 1, humans will have consumed more natural resources in 2018 than the Earth can regenerate this year, according to the California-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footprintnetwork.org\/\">Global Footprint Network<\/a>. This environmental nonprofit calculates the annual arrival of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.overshootday.org\/\">Earth Overshoot Day<\/a> \u2013 the date when humanity\u2019s demands on nature exceed what the network\u2019s analysts estimate the Earth can regenerate over the entire year. August 1 is the earliest date since ecological overshoot began in the early 1970s.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-07-humans-depleting-earth-resources-footprint.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;07-humans-depleting-earth-res...print.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts widely agree that human activities are harming the global environment. Since the Industrial Revolution, the world economy has grown dramatically. Overall this is a success story, since rising incomes have lifted millions of people out of poverty. But it has been fueled by population growth and increasing consumption of natural resources. Rising demand to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81091,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81083\/revisions\/81091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}