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1987

Sunday, 1 March 2009

George Orwell may not have been far off when he portrayed 1984 as a year in which the world had turned into a very ugly place. While pervasive government surveillance and control and increasing encroachment on the rights of the individual may be debatable - in 1987 the world reached a terrible milestone. Human beings used up 100% of what the Earth is able to produce in a single year. Since then we have been eating away at our 'ecological capital'. In 2009 we expect to use up our yearly capacity by September... Makes it very hard to feel like cleaning up pieces of rubbish will make much difference - despite the fact I'm a big supporter of Clean up Australia day... I wish we could just stop reproducing until we were able to control our population appropriately.

Labels: 1987, human milestone

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