It’s good to have a day that remind us that earth day should be every day, because we all depend on our one and only earth.
We need countless ecosystem services in order to survive; nature provides clean air, water, food, raw materials,etc. that we take for granted.
Today our population is close to 7 billion people, and it’s continuing to grow exponentially while we take more and more resources from our planet at a rate that is already triggering ecosystems to collapse around the globe.
We are now at a severe ecological deficit, and Nature unlike some governments doesn’t do bailouts.
This is a consumption cartogram that shows our global consumption patterns:
Cosumption Cartogram from http://www.pthbb.org/
The map shows two variables:
1) coloration shows natural reserves(green) or natural deficit(red) of national biocapacity
2) area indicates absolute consumption of biocapacity.
Consumption = Appropriated National Biocapacity + Imports - Exports
The area of each country has been distorted to represent its consumption i.e.; its ecological footprint. Countries which appear larger than normal are consuming more than their fair earth share and smaller countries are consuming less.
Click here to calculate your ecological Footprint: http://www.myfootprint.org/
Even today people do not care too much about the environmental values. Nature will hardly punish in future all of us. Complicated weather condition in everywhere is the most bad sign.