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By Suzanne York. Talk about timing. Earth Overshoot Day, the date when humanity’s demands upon nature exceeds what Earth’s natural systems can renew in a given year, comes as California endures a wildfire hell. Overshoot Day, however, is falling later than in past years, on August 22nd, due to the other hell the world is enduring, that
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By Suzanne York, www.howmany.org Most Americans are probably aware that California and much of the U.S. Southwest is in the grips of a major drought. And it’s likely that people know at least something about conserving water. Take shorter showers, don’t wash your car, water your lawn at risk of $500 fines, etc. But a
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By Suzanne York, www.howmany.org The president of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, warned that battles over water and food will erupt within the next five to ten years as a result of climate change. As he was talking of the risks of climate change, the UN announced that food prices had risen to their
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