Sentences with phrase «ecological deficits on»

The second section looks at the negative effect of ecological deficits on the food prospect and how to eliminate both soil and water deficits.

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«Most countries are in ecological deficit, increasingly dependent on potentially unreliable trade in biocapacity,» Rees and Wackernagel wrote.

Despite Blomqvist et al.'s reservations, Footprint results show that: (1) most countries are in ecological deficit, increasingly dependent on potentially unreliable trade in biocapacity; (2) humanity is at or beyond global carrying capacity for key categories of consumption, particularly agriculture (factoring in soil loss and ecosystem degradation would reveal additional deficits); (3) global carbon waste sinks are overflowing; and (4) the aggregate metabolism of the human economy exceeds the regenerative capacity of the ecosphere (and the ratio is increasing).

The method currently shows that about 84 % of the world population live in countries that run growing ecological deficits, i.e., they are living on overuse of their own ecosystems, on imported biocapacity or on appropriations from the global commons [4], [9].

When the global EF is decomposed into its six components (Figure 1), none of the five non-carbon land - use categories has any substantial ecological deficit — suggesting that depletion of cropland, grazing land, forest land, fishing grounds, and built - up land is not occurring on an aggregate, global level.

And in the US, we've already hit Ecological Deficit Day on July 14th of this year, a full month before this global milestone was reached.