{"id":5707,"date":"2010-08-20T13:07:32","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T18:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=5707"},"modified":"2018-09-23T23:18:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T18:18:39","slug":"our-world-enters-ecological-debt-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/our-world-enters-ecological-debt-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Our world enters ecological debt&#8230; overnight."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/earth-from-space.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5708\" title=\"earth-from-space\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/earth-from-space.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"365\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>London, UK<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffcc;\">It has taken humanity less than nine months to blow its ecological budget for the year, according to data from leading independent UK think-tank <strong>nef<\/strong> (the new economics foundation) and Global Footprint Network, a California-based environmental research organization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ecological Debt Day comes a full month earlier than last year, reflecting not only greater consumption of resources on a global scale, despite the recession, but also improvements in data collection giving a more detailed analysis than ever before. The new research, for example, indicates that the world has less grazing land available than previously estimated.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>(Thanks to Jacques Lange in South Africa \u2014 sorry, link is now broken).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London, UK It has taken humanity less than nine months to blow its ecological budget for the year, according to data from leading independent UK think-tank nef (the new economics foundation) and Global Footprint Network, a California-based environmental research organization. Ecological Debt Day comes a full month earlier than last year, reflecting not only greater [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,7,14,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15933,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5707\/revisions\/15933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}