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By Suzanne York. The prediction is so shocking that it is difficult to comprehend – our world is on track to lose two-thirds of wild animals by 2020. The Living Planet Report 2016, by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Zoological Society of London, reports that animal populations plummeted by 58% between 1970 and 2012, with losses on
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By Suzanne York, www.howmany.org Global overshoot. You’d have to be in serious denial, or living under a rock, to not realize that humanity today is living beyond planetary means. We take so much from Earth to live our lives today. August 19th is designated as Earth Overshoot Day, the date humanity exceeds the carrying capacity
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Tags: Consumption, Earth Overshoot Day, economy, human rights, Population Growth, rights of nature