| kach22i |
10-07-2015 05:09 AM |
I found the Rabbit and Wolf scenario to be interesting.
Going back to the human condition, what I've always marveled at is the habitual habit of humans totally using up resources.
We will hunt an area until is is depleted of game.
We will clear cut trees.
We will catch fish until there are no more, or until there are limits and restrictions placed on us.
We will farm a piece of land until it will yield no more, even when resting the land or planting less profitable crops are an option.
We will irrigate dry lands until the salts make it's unfit for growing (Olmec, Mayan, Incan, Aztec, and current US west).
Not all humans are the short sighted "deplete" type, some are the "nurture" and save type, with an eye with what's around the next corner.
In short, there are givers, and there are takers......................and always have been.
Taking for one's self or for your tribe bears little difference.
The big difference is whether or not you care about the future, or only the present.
Humans have already used up 2015's supply of Earth's resources – analysis
Humans have already used up 2015's supply of Earth's resources
Quote:
Humans have exhausted a year’s supply of natural resources in less than eight months, according to an analysis of the demands the world’s population are placing on the planet.
The Earth’s “overshoot day” for 2015, the point at which humanity goes into ecological debt, will occur on Thursday six days earlier than last year, based on an estimate by the Global Footprint Network (GFN).
The date is based on a comparison of humanity’s demands – in terms of carbon emissions, cropland, fish stocks, and the use of forests for timber – with the planet’s ability to regenerate such resources and naturally absorb the carbon emitted. That implies the excess demands being placed on natural systems are doing more permanent harm that cannot be easily undone.
The GFN estimates that human consumption first began to exceed the Earth’s capacity in the early 1970s and the overshoot day has been falling steadily earlier ever since, due to the growth in the global population alongside the expansion of consumption around the world.
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I guess that if you believe in a second coming and end of the world via biblical prophecy, then go ahead and use up the Earth while you can. Everyone else better be thinking about tomorrow. |
