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They better Eliminate and Reduce the planet earth's global population, effectively by nuke, or the Over-population will OVERSHOT Squandering global resources.



http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/earth_overshoot_day/



Earth Overshoot Day

In less than 8 Months, Humanity exhausts Earth's budget for the year

Earth Overshoot Day 2016 lands on August 8, marking the date when humanity has exhausted nature’s budget for the year. For the rest of the year, we will maintain our ecological deficit by drawing down local resource stocks and accumulating carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. We will be operating in overshoot.

Just as a bank statement tracks income against expenditures, Global Footprint Network measures humanity’s demand for and supply of natural resources and ecological services. And the data is sobering. Global Footprint Network estimates that approximately every eight months, we demand more renewable resources and C02 sequestration than what the planet can provide for an entire year.

Please see the Earth Overshoot Day website at www.overshootday.org.



Below is information from previous Earth Overshoot Days:

In 2015, Earth Overshoot Day was August 13.

Read our 2015 press release here (English).

In 2014, Earth Overshoot Day was August 19.

Read our 2014 press release in your language:
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Methodology and Projections

Earth Overshoot Day is an estimate, not an exact date. It’s not possible to determine with 100 percent accuracy the day we bust our ecological budget. Adjustments of the date that we go into overshoot are due to revised calculations, not ecological advances on the part of humanity.

As Global Footprint Network methodology changes, projections will continue to shift. But every scientific model used to account for human demand and nature’s supply shows a consistent trend: We are well over budget, and that debt is compounding. It is an ecological debt, and the interest we are paying on that mounting debt—food shortages, soil erosion, and the build-up of CO₂ in our atmosphere—comes with devastating human and monetary costs.


Calculate your own personal Ecological Footprint and learn what you can do to reduce it with our Footprint Calculator.

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https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-causes-for-a-natural-resource-depletion


What are the causes for a natural resource depletion?
7 ANSWERS
Quah Zelene
Quah Zelene, Nature-lover
Written 18 Jun 2015
Well, firstly,
Natural resource depletion is the sum of net forest depletion, energy depletion, and mineral depletion.
What then leads to such depletions?
This can be caused by the rising population on Earth, where the world human population (the total number of living humans on Earth) was 7.244 billion as of July 2014 according to the medium fertility estimate by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division and it is projected to reach 7.325 billion in July 2015. Population in the world is currently growing at a rate of around 1.14% per year. The average population change is currently estimated at around 80 million per year.
With this increasing population, there is definitely a greater need for resources, one of the example will be the need for water. In the last 45 years, the demand for earth's natural resources has doubled,due to rising living standards in rich and emerging countries and increasing world population. Today humanity uses 50% of the planet's fresh water. In 40 years we will use 80%.

Every year we use a massive 4 trillion cubic meters of freshwater. This amount is equivalent to 50 Olympic swimming pools every second. Or, it's comparable to if everyone on the planet would drink over 4 glasses of water…every single minute.|



Due to the rise in population, deforestation is introduced for forests to make way for housings and other human uses. As a result of deforestation, presently about one half of the forests that once covered Earth have been destroyed. An estimated 18 million acres of forests are destroyed each year.
It occurs for many different reasons, and it has several negative implications on the atmosphere and the quality of the land in and surrounding the forest.
Some of the causes are:
Urbanization, Illegal logging, Agriculture, Subsistence Farming.

As the population of developing areas, especially near rainforests, increases, the need for land for farming becomes more important.
Because deforestation is so extensive, it has made several significant impacts on the environment, including Soil erosion, Global Warming caused by the rise of greenhouse gases, Extinction of species and loss of biodiversity, flooding and drought.
One of the most pressing issues that deforestation creates is soil erosion. The removal of trees causes higher rates of erosion, increasing risks of landslides, which is a direct threat to many people living close to deforested areas. As forests get destroyed, so does the habitat for millions of animals. It is estimated that 80% of the world’s known biodiversity lives in the rainforests, and the destruction of these rainforests is accelerating extinction at an alarming rate.


Oil depletion is also an increasing trend. The growth in demand for oil will outstrip supply in 2020 or 2025 overall, noting that the world is experiencing "the twilight of oil" that is, a time of transition between abundance and scarcity. The dispute over the oil that remains will lead to a permanent state of war, characterized by the presence of great powers in their regions. In the past, large companies in the industry discovered more oil per year than they were able to extract, which is no longer true today. There is currently more than oil extraction capacity to replenish with new discoveries. Many scientists say that oil will run out in around 2070.

Mineral reserves are also depleting quickly. Minerals are needed to provide food, clothing, and housing. There is a significant long-term trend over the 20th century for non-renewable resources such as minerals to supply a greater proportion of the raw material inputs to the non-fuel, non-food sector of the economy; an example is the greater consumption of crushed stone, sand, and gravel used in construction. Such constructions are accompanied by rising affluence which lead to a higher demand for better living standards. Large-scale exploitation of minerals began in the Industrial Revolution around 1760 in England and has grown rapidly ever since. Most of the world's mineral ores are still being extracted from mines over fifty years old. Miners cope by digging deeper, accepting lower grades of ore, and using technology to extract the minerals. Virtually all basic industrial metals (copper, iron, bauxite, etc.), as well as rare earth minerals, are facing output limitations.
For two centuries the extraction of mineral resources became more intense, removing increasing amounts of nature. The concern is that most of these resources are not renewable, or not replenished by nature. If the pace of extraction continues as is,mankind will see certainly some minerals become extinct. Based on existing reserves today, certain mineral resources already have a possible date for run out.
Minerals projected to enter production decline during the next 20 years:
Gas (2023)
Copper (2024)
Zinc
Tin (2020)
Gold (2020)
Minerals projected to enter production decline during the present century:
Aluminium (2057)
Coal (2030?–2060)
Iron (2068)
Nickel (2050)


These are just a few reasons for the current depletion of resources. Something should be done to reduce such usage. A way to start would be to start saving water, paper, plastic and electricity.

Reuse, Reduce & Recycle
Bring reusable bags and containers that could be bought at nearby supermarkets. This reduces the need to use plastic bags.
Choose products that are returnable, reusable, or refillable over single-use items.
Avoid individually wrapped items, snack packs, and single-serve containers. Pack them individually on your own to reduce packaging wastage. Packaging makes up 30% of the weight and 50% of trash by volume.
Be aware of double-packaging - some "bulk packages" are just individually wrapped items packaged yet again and sold as a bulk item.
Purchase items such as dish soap and laundry detergents in concentrate forms.
Compost food scraps and yard waste. Food and yard waste accounts for about 11 percent of the garbage thrown away in the Twin Cities metro area. Many types of food scraps, along with leaves and yard trimmings, can be combined in your backyard compost bin.
Unsubscribe to mails that are unwanted. The average resident in America receives over 30 pounds of junk mail per year.
Buy items made of recycled content, and use and reuse them as much as you can. For instance, use both sides of every page of a notebook before moving on to the next clean notebook. Use unneeded, printed on printer paper for a scratch pad.
Feel free to reject plastic bags or products with more packaging.
Here's a great counter:
The World Counts
Remember, Every step counts! :)

(The above is a mixture of research from websites and personal responses. Websites quoted :
Resource depletion
DEPLETION OF NATURAL RESOURCES OF THE PLANET EARTH
The World Counts
Top 10 Ways to Reduce Waste
 
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Oil depletion
Oil depletion is the decline in oil production of a well, oil field, or geographic area.[1] The Hubbert peak theory makes predictions of production rates based on prior discovery rates and anticipated production rates. Hubbert curves predict that the production curves of non-renewing resources approximate a bell curve. Thus, according to this theory, when the peak of production is passed, production rates enter an irreversible decline.[2][3]

The United States Energy Information Administration predicted in 2006 that world consumption of oil will increase to 98.3 million barrels per day (15,630,000 m3/d) (mbd) in 2015 and 118 million barrels per day in 2030.[4] With 2009 world oil consumption at 84.4 mbd,[5] reaching the projected 2015 level of consumption would represent an average annual increase between 2009 and 2015 of 2.7% per year.

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