By Tomorrow, We Will Have Consumed More Resources So Far This Year Than the Planet Is Capable of Regenerating

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By The RevelatorAug 1, 2017, 1:24 pm153 pts
By John R. Platt We humans use a lot of stuff — so much stuff, in fact, that we consume more in a year than the planet is capable of regenerating . That wasn't a problem until a few decades ago. Back in 1987 the "overshoot" date for Earth's resources was December 19, less than two weeks before the end of the…

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