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Tuesday, November 10, 2009 |
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 |
Photo: Balance Earth's "Eco Wealth" the Same Way as Finances, Group SaysRapid deforestation is just one of the factors that define humanity's "ecological footprint"—the amount of land and water area a population uses to produce the resources it consumes and to absorb its waste. Today our ecological footprint is nearly 30 percent larger than what the planet can regenerate in a given year, according to an accounting tool designed to measure resource use. Photograph by James P. Blair/NGS
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