RedBear [none/use name]@hexbear.net to Today I learned@lemmy.ml · 2 days agoTIL humans are using 1.8 Earths worth of resourceswww.footprintnetwork.orgexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up122arrow-down11file-text
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minus-squareMoidialectica [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoQuestion: does 1 earth of resources make it equal, where it replenishes whatevers taken? if so, I’m surprised we aren’t using even more, I would’ve thought we are using 18 earth’s.
minus-squareEphera@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoI think, it doesn’t include resources that we don’t deem renewable in the first place? So, coal, gas, uranium etc. will just run out in the not-too-distant future and that is a problem, but a separate problem.
Question: does 1 earth of resources make it equal, where it replenishes whatevers taken?
if so, I’m surprised we aren’t using even more, I would’ve thought we are using 18 earth’s.
I think, it doesn’t include resources that we don’t deem renewable in the first place? So, coal, gas, uranium etc. will just run out in the not-too-distant future and that is a problem, but a separate problem.