Signal Global Footprint Network cited: resources used 1.75 times faster than regeneration

Summary

The Megatrends 2040 report cites a 2019 warning by the Global Footprint Network, a non-governmental organization, about the over-consumption of natural resources. According to the organization, humanity is drawing on the planet's resources 1.75 times faster than ecosystems can regenerate them. The NGO stressed that this pace compromises the Earth's future capacity to regenerate. The report places the figure alongside the observation that the world has been in ecological deficit since 1970, after population doubled and GDP rose tenfold over fifty years. It uses these data to support its megatrend of growing resource scarcity.