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This image shows global material resource use in tonnes. The red line is what ecologists deem to be a roughly sustainable level of consumption. We overshot that threshold about 20 years ago, and resource use has only accelerated since then. #postgrowth #degrowth
This chart shows the relationship between global material use and GDP. Since 2000, material use has been rising at a faster rate than GDP. Instead of the "decoupling" that green-growthers hope for, a dramatic re-coupling has occurred. #postgrowth #degrowth
And here we see that resource overshoot is due almost entirely to excess consumption in rich countries. The red line is the planetary boundary rendered in per capita terms. Rich countries exceed it four times over. #postgrowth #degrowth
Remember, excess resource use has real-world consequences: deforestation, fish stock collapse, soil depletion, chemical loading, ocean dead zones, open-pit mines, river pollution, insect die-off, mass species extinction. These pose an existential threat equal to climate change.
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