{"id":561,"date":"2009-09-27T06:14:23","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T14:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=561"},"modified":"2009-09-27T06:14:23","modified_gmt":"2009-09-27T14:14:23","slug":"ecological-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/27\/ecological-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"ecological debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just in case you were wondering &#8211; no, the Great Recession &#8220;has had little impact on humanity&#8217;s over-consumption of resources, says a report.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every year, the New Economics Foundation (Nef) runs the numbers and determines the exact date when the world enters ecological debt. In other words, &#8220;This is the date by which humanity has used the quantity of natural resources that ought to last an entire year if used at a sustainable rate.&#8221; This year? September 25th. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8273791.stm\">&#8220;Debt-fuelled over-consumption not only brought the financial system to the edge of collapse, it is pushing many of our natural life support systems toward a precipice.&#8221;<\/a> Or so says Andrew Simms, Nef policy director and co-author of the report.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s a Neo-Green to do? <\/p>\n<p>posted by Mudd<br \/>\nall quotes BBC online edition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in case you were wondering &#8211; no, the Great Recession &#8220;has had little impact on humanity&#8217;s over-consumption of resources, says a report.&#8221; Every year, the New Economics Foundation (Nef) runs the numbers and determines the exact date when the world enters ecological debt. In other words, &#8220;This is the date by which humanity has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":564,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}