Sentences with phrase «into ecological overshoot»
«Humanity's carbon footprint alone more than doubled since the early 1970s, which is when the world went into ecological overshoot.
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Mora also underscored our joint efforts, saying, «[the MOU with Global Footprint Network] isn't simply to carry out scientific studies on Nariño's Ecological Footprint and biocapacity, but also to direct our province with concrete actions on how to build a green economy that takes ecological limits into account and move back the date of Earth Overshoot Day, so that our actions with natural resources in the region are sustainabEcological Footprint and biocapacity, but also to direct our province with concrete actions on how to build a green economy that takes ecological limits into account and move back the date of Earth Overshoot Day, so that our actions with natural resources in the region are sustainabecological limits into account and move back the date of Earth Overshoot Day, so that our actions with natural resources in the region are sustainable.»
Adjustments of the date that we go into overshoot are due to revised calculations, not ecological advances on the part of humanity.
We now live in a state of global ecological overshoot: allowing carbon dioxide to accumulate in the atmosphere, polluting our air and water ways, and causing natural landscapes to wilt into deserts and icecaps to melt into seas.
As a thought experiment, when plugging a carbon sequestration rate of 2.6 t C ha − 1 year − 1 or higher into the EF calculation, the entire global ecological overshoot disappears.
The paper finds that the entirety of the global ecological overshoot consists of carbon emissions, which are translated into a highly uncertain, hypothetical area of forest needed to offset these emissions.