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亿人口每年消耗的资源是地球18个月才能产出的。
http://www.worldpopulationbalance.org/3_times_sustainable
Current Population is Three Times the Sustainable Level
(To find out how you can help, see Our Vision to Solve Overpopulation.)
Current global population of over 7 billion is already two to three times
higher than the sustainable level. Several recent studies show that Earth’s
resources are enough to sustain only about 2 billion people at a European
standard of living.
An average European consumes far more resources than any of the poorest two
billion people in the world. However, Europeans use only about half the
resources of Americans, on average.
Currently, over 7 billion of us are consuming about 50% more resources than
Earth is producing – during any given time period. For example, in the past
twelve months we have consumed the resources that it took the planet about
eighteen months to produce. We are consuming our resource base.
Obviously, this 50% overshoot is not sustainable. Another crucial point to
understand is this: the longer we overshoot and consume more resources than
the sustainable level, the more the long-term “sustainable level” actually
declines!
One illustration of this is what’s actually been happening to fresh water
aquifers all around the world. Currently over half of us are in countries
where aquifers are being overpumped. As “fossil” aquifers are pumped, that
water is not replaced. So when that water is depleted, pumping ends since
there is no more water flowing in.
Non-fossil aquifers have a “recharge rate” – the rate at which new, fresh
water flows in. As long as water is pumped out at or below the recharge
rate, the aquifer will continue to supply the same amount of water year
after year after year. However, these rechargeable aquifers are being
overpumped.
For example, if an aquifer held a million gallons of water, and each year
rainfall replenished 100,000 gallons into it, the recharge rate would be 100
,000 gallons. As long as everyone collectively pumped no more than 100,000
gallons out, that would be sustainable for years to come. But very
frequently people begin pumping more than the recharge rate, let’s say 110,
000 gallons the first year, 130,000 gallons the next year and so on. In
several more years they might pump over 200,000 gallons out. Eventually they
will have pumped all of the million gallons of reserve out. At that point,
the annual capacity for that aquifer would fall back to the recharge rate –
100,000 gallons a year. When aquifer reserves are depleted and fall back to
the recharge rate, millions of people may suffer! Many other resources are
declining in similar fashion.
To become sustainable with Earth’s resources, what are our choices?
Reducing overall consumption by 50% would do it for now. Or, reducing
population by 3 to 4 billion would do it. It’s more likely that a
combination of both – large declines in consumption and human numbers –
will be necessary.
Five Earths at American Standard
If all of the world’s 7 billion people consumed as much as an average
American, it would take the resources of over five Earths to sustainably
support all of them. On average, each American uses nearly 20 acres of
biologically productive land and water (biocapacity) per year.
Earth’s 29.6 billion acres of biologically productive land and water could
sustainably support only about 1.5 billion people at an 'American standard
of living and consumption.'
At the opposite end of the spectrum are the 1.3 billion people in the world
’s poorest countries. Even they are unsustainably overshooting and
depleting their resource biocapacity – by over 10%!
During the past decade several researchers around the world have
independently concluded that one to two billion is the sustainable number of
people (at a European standard of living). Could they be wrong? Download
our newsletter to read the article: “Confronting The 21st Century’s Hidden
Crisis: Reducing Human Numbers by 80%”.
All of us want a viable, sustainable global home. This can be accomplished
only if the wealthier of us reduce our ecological footprint to truly
sustainable levels and, if all of us begin now to humanely and dramatically
reduce our human numbers. |
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