"More so than any other issue facing us we must all start to reduce our ecological footprint"

Yes, we must start to reduce our ecological footprint as developement of the world over the past 20 years has proven to be unsustainable. Meaning that we are actually living beyond our means e.g. A quarter of all fish stocks are overharvested, Humans now use between 40% and 50% of all available freshwater running off the land and deforestation increase risks of various deadly diseases such as malaria and cholera. Our way of life is placing an increasing burden on the planet and this can certainly not be sustained. To be sustainable, nature’s resources must only be used at a rate which they can be replenished naturally. Scientific evidence shows now that humanity is living in n unsustainable way. Humans are consuming the Earth's limited natural resources more rapidly than they are being replaced by nature. Now a human effort to keep human use of natural resources within the  aspect of the Earth’s finite resource limits is now an issue of huge importance to the present and future of humanity.

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"Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."

As our world population increases rapidly our use of natural resources cannot go on forever and unless we start to make progress with reconciling these contradictions everybody, where ever they are will face a much less certain and secure lifestyle to the lifestyle we live in today.

No, we don't have to reduce our ecological footprint as the world we live in right now is suffering from much worse issues presently and so in ...

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