after reading the tagging thread
then this on the mash forum
Today is a bleak day for the environment, the day of the year when mankind over-exploits the world's resources - the day when we start living beyond our ecological means.
Evidence is mounting that rapid population growth and rising living standards among the Earth's six billion inhabitants are putting an intolerable strain on nature. For the first time an organisation * a British think- * has sought to pinpoint how quickly man is using the global resources of farming land, forests, fish, air and energy.
The new economics foundation has calculated from research by a US academic group, Global Footprint Network, that the day when we use more than our fair share of the Earth * when "humanity starts eating the planet" * is October 9.
In other words, assuming that the world has a certain quantity of natural resources that can sustainably be used up each year, today is the date at which this annual capacity is reached. And environmentalists warn that just as a company bound for bankruptcy plunging into the red or a borrower " maxing out" on credit cards must face the consequences, so must man.
scary really
it got me thinking
we are running out of recourses.......
our prisons are over crowded.........
why dont we eat the prisoners!!!!! then possibly use the prisons to home the homless / or weapons.
will save on food for a bit as most places have a constant crime rate.
then we could also knock down the prisons and plant trees and shit. as apparently homless ppl provide great fertilizer