our ecological footprint 2002

["Ian Murray" <seamus2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.panda.org/livingplanet/lpr02/

The Living Planet Report is WWF's periodic update on the state of
the world's ecosystems - as measured by the Living Planet Index -
and the human pressures on them through the consumption of
renewable natural resources - as measured by the Ecological
Footprint. There is a cause-effect linkage between the two
measures.


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...current trends are moving humanity away from achieving this
minimum requirement for sustainability, not towards it. The global
ecological footprint has grown from about 70% of the planet's
biological capacity in 1961 to about 120% of its biological
capacity in 1999. Furthermore, future projections based on likely
scenarios of population growth, economic development and
technological change, show that humanity's footprint is likely to
grow to about 180% to 220% of the Earth's biological capacity by
the year 2050.