Taking cue from humanity’s most pressing existential threats – overpopulation and climate change – international team of researches recommend that limits be established now before exponential growth strips our System of its resources.
Only a drastic improvement in efficiency would allow the planet to manage a higher standard of living.
Sand is an essential component in construction, and mining it is causing ecological damage, fueling corruption, and threatening economic growth.
As of August 2, 2017, humans have officially used more natural resources than the Earth can replenish in one year.
Illegal fishing, logging and poaching, are impacting two-thirds of the 57 natural World Heritage sites monitored by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) this year.
In a historic move, the country will no longer allow “prospection, exploration, exploitation, extraction or processing of metallic minerals.”
Researchers say global resource governance and sharing of geoscience data is needed to address challenges facing future mineral supply.
