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It Would Take 4.4 Earths To Sustain A World Full Of Americans
It takes the planet 1.5 years to restore what humanity burns through in a year. The silver lining, the US is #1 in something once again - consumption. In fact, it would take 4.4 Earths to sustain the planet if everyone lived like Americans. Rather disappointingly, the USA is 56th in the world for alcohol consumption per capita (though we suspect that will rise).
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A world full of Americans... who would they attack?!?!??!?!
Self-Immolation...?
On the other hand, the world´s energy demands could be met by the biofuel harvested from all the overweight people living in Mississippi alone for many years to come
Looks like Canadians are weighing in heavy on the energy.
It's alot colder up there Einstien, they pay more for their independence in more ways than one.
I live in Canada it is currently -27C (-16F).
You need to throw a few more virtual logs into your virtual furnace.
No need, just let the mining rigs heat yer home. The summer might get pricey though heh.
Ya yah hey dere, got a smoke, eh?
Chooch it!
Tyler Doody posits: it takes 1.5 years for the earth to replace what humanity burns through in a year.
Now, for anyone with a brain . Nothing gets replaced, what is burned is gone, only to come back as a pollutant. With 7 billion people it doesn't just replenish on its own, get it yet?
I'll take Winnepeg for $400 Alex
It's only -20 in Eastern Ontario.
I live on the Canadian border just south of Thunder Bay. It's been cold. -21F last night. -8F this evening and sinking. Had a slush storm before the cold hit, thus everything is frozen solid, it was near impossible to open the gas cover on my RAV4, had to get hot water from the house, throw it on, and open, then dry as best I could, ship ice, then slip it back on. Need a tank full to drive to my daughters this weekend. Everybody same problem. The electronic gas pumps failed at some stations when it reached -30F. The liquid crystal displays or what ever they are made of now simply can't cope. They go out and blow hot air on them from time to time. It sucks,
It's funny (or not) to see all the cracked dashboards in almost all the pickups of any age in interior Alaska. At -40 and -50, the plastic of which they are made is SO brittle that they rattle as if made of glass, and the slightest bumping of them, or even running over a pothole in the road, will cause them to instantly crack.
I am guessing you are familiar with the phenomenon.
akak,
Try 303 Aerospace. Never use Armorall. I'm not sure if 303 will help you with your cold temps, but it's great stuff in sunny areas. :)
Spray everything with no-stick where you can. It keeps the ice from forming, and comes off easier.
"The silver lining, the US is #1 in something once again - consumption. "
Exceptionalism!
They have a neighbor to the south that pays for their defence, obama is shutting that program down so looks like that's the next area Canada needs to invest in.
Bull shit. Canada has no enemies. Nobody is going to attack from the north west or east. All our military bases are near the US border with the excepption of Cold Lake. We are americas first line of defense against attack by the evil russkies over our land and air space.
If we have a weak military it is by design. The socialist troodough gutted the military to pay for other socialist fantasies. Later his sucessors tried to bringin gun control.
"All our military bases are near the US border with the excepption of Cold Lake"
All of your population is along the US border, along with all of the transportation and other infrastructure required to support that military.
"We are americas first line of defense against attack by the evil russkies over our land and air space."
Ah...surely that must explain the base locations, rather than the availability of housing, transportation, and food. And together with the Mexican light infantry patrolling the Rio Grande while cleverly disguised as day laborers, America can sleep at ease tonight.
The last one doesn't look good for us.
and we produce 25-30 % of the world's GDP. Why no mention of that little tidbit? So yes, we use a LOT of energy to do so and we have the trash that comes with said production. Nope, we are not perfect, but our facotries use energy only less efficiently than Japan, the most efficient producers on the planet. I wonder how the authors of this article live? Like someone in Peru? I doubt it.
This article reminds me of the last three anthropomorphic global warming screamers I have encountered. Each one had recently renovated their homes, increasing the size from 30 to 100%. GW because of me? HUH?
Glorifying poverty and third world countries as virtuous has become a very popular (albeit stupid, not that that stops anyone) meme.
And the hatred for the South is embarrassing. Too much Kunstler.
I'm with Serenity on this, and that number about how little liquor Americans suck down, well, you can't rpove that by me. (hic!)
You can't prove it by me either, my good fellow. Cheers!
Hey masterdebater - I think they call what you did there "ad hominem."
most of the the GDP you mention is used to blow up the countries far away.
"sources: Huffingtonpost. Wolrd Bank*** Not that I think America is a pillar of supremacy wrt spartan living but "The World Bank"??? now there is a source to be relied on..mmmmffff
Tell us more.
I was going to say, world bank, .gov, and huffpo? Every time I see an infographic it makes me cringe when I get to the sources at the bottom.
Define Americans, cause we sure as hell don't know what it means.
"Americans" are the people that flew to the Moon and came back.
Americans are also the people who have placed telescopes on Earth and in space to find other planets - and scientists have found thousands of them. Some say there are millions of planets out there in the cosmos.
So, as a proud American, I demand that we get some rag-assed brown people to get off their lazy butts and go out there, in space, and bring us back some really good shit. NOW. Or we'll drone you losers back into the Stone Age.
Any you are taking about the Chinese this way why?
i think you mean citizien of the USA.
the americans were there far before you arrived.
AmeriKa is sure need of dietary implementation.
Long scales.
Mermaid...?
Bathroom
You are to keep long tail siren in commode? You are post of photograph, please.
Okay, and maybe Russia is sure need of 12 step program.
Boris is also recommendation of two step program. Not so much cure of alcoholic state, but is make better for social dancing.
less simple sugars and more body movement, for sure
I do do my part raising the consumption levels of alcohol. Some of you other Hedgers aren't pulling your weight.
You are tough competition, but Russia is drink you!
Yes. Mental numbness, self-hatred and fatalism is the winning answer.
Here's Madison Rising for the self loathing bitchez. Grow some balls and Restore lady liberty, you fucking poor excuse for men.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8C7i9kdEf8
Edit: Those who dislike this rendition, are certain to perish before the Great Restoration.
How can one visit this site and NOT drink?
No shit, here I was thinking I'm a heavy drinker and I've only got the Moldovians beat by maybe 12-15 whiskey bottles. I was going to give a pro tip of drinking Weller 12yr 90 proof, 1.75L @ $29.99 from Costco but now I'll call it an advanced intermediate tip. For those interested, for as bad as Weller 12yr tastes the Weller 15yr is very smooth.
What happens 3 years from now?
They never last that long, so nobody knows.
My alcohol consumption sure has risen as of late...
Hari Kari volunteers?
I always believed that people who were concerned about global overpopulation should take direct, personal action.
Amerika needs to export the progressives. Then consumption will come down. Fat Lazy dems and repubs sucking the taxpayer dry.
The socialist mindset defines it's existence and lot in life by comparing and blaming. It's the height of a loser. No personal responsibility, no courage to fight for individual rights. Just self hatred, self destruction and ultimately just begging their masters for a better cut of the shrinking pie.
Unfortunately there are too many ass lickers here and not enough patriots. Therefore change will only happen by circumstance not planning.
These figures are BS, WE produce most of the energy we consume.Most of the food is thrown away by restaurants and stores.Due to stupid Gov't laws they cannot give it away to others in need.Also, WHAT nation gives more than America does to others here and worldwide for free?,what countries people donate more than anyone than Americans, NO ONE.
NO ONE.
Sick of this Blame Americans crap.
Worldbank? Yeah, stats I can trust.
Looks like agenda 21 propaganda to me.
Thanks Club of Rome, and Bill Gates foundation.
If Hitler said "2+2=4", would you stop believing that mathematical equation because Hitler believes it to be true?
Sometimes, assholes say things that are true and nice people say shit that makes no sense. You cannot disregard information simply due to the source. Apply your own common sense to it and arrive at your own conclusion based on that, not the source.
PS: If you posses no common sense, please disregard this post.
Expressing a mathematical equation, and publishing a load of dodgy stats for dubious reasons are very different things.
The problem with common sense is, it ain't common.
I'd like to think about what you said, but you seem like a jerk, so forget it.
America has more PACKAGING for everything!!! That's where a lot of the trash comes from I hate the waste that i see from everything ....... food and household products. I don't know what it will take to change american values to reduced packaging
Big boxes to make up for shrinking contents.
Half of our waste stream is cardboard. The other half is unsolicited catalogs. Tis the season for free kindling.
It is real simple. Drastically cut the US GDP and we will consume less resources. The US consumes 25% of the world's energy because we produce 25% of the world's GDP. That is very easy to change if folks want to do so.
You never see environmentalists in the US lead on this front by reducing their living to average world standards (presuming they want the US to be an average user of resources). The bottom 10% in the US live at the top 30% of the world. So I am waiting for the true environmentalists to fully live out their creed by dramatically reducing their consumption / living standards.
What in tar nation is this socialist drivel? If god wanted Muricans to be skinny, he wouldn't a created wall marts and monster trucks. It is our god given right to be as big as god wants us to be, in fact he wants my wife tobe about 425, I liked her well nuff at 375 though. As for consumin' it is our right to vacuum up anything that those dirty brown people aren't using for themselves cause they is too lazy to invent the technology to extract it themselves . So we th naturally superior posteriors get to keep it, fairs fair, tough titties.
I was thinking the same thing regarding the relationship between GDP and energy consumption.
In fact, in quite a few of the years, the US has apparently had a larger portion of the world GDP than energy consumption. In those years the rest of the world was actually using more energy than the US, per GDP, but I'm sure the US was still receiving the blame those years.
Besides, if it weren't for western Europe and the US, would anyone have ever even heard of environmentalism? From what I understand the USSR was one of the worst at protecting the environment [which, believe it or not, I am a big supporter of doing -- I just think that limiting overfishing and over-polluting of the oceans and limiting over-development and over-polluting of the land is probably more important than limiting CO2 and other GHG emissions -- until they can actually come up with a computer model which can actually predict weather things like the temperature, in advance -- so far, not so much -- also, I much favor the free-market model of private donations to groups like the the Nature Conservancy over the state-control model of compelled compliance like Agenda 21 appears to represent -- isn't that far more about power-collection (and thus also more corruption) than environmentalism?].
and yet many still believe that an economy based on endless growth is rational and sustainable?
growth comes in many flavors, no? iphones represent great gorwth, but use very limited resources. productivity gains are gorwth, but result in less use of resources by defintion.
So, yes, growth is important but not always detrimental to mother earth.
Yes growth is fine if there are 5 million hunter gatherers on the planet. Unfortunately when you get up to 7 Billion, things change. Now we have 3.5 Billion people who want McMansions, McCrappy Meals, McF350's, McDiplomas, McHopenChange etc etc......it is always, always, ALWAYS detrimental in these numbers. The planet is dying because of it. IF you think it is healthy you are delusional.
Of course not, and it will rarely (never?) occur naturally.
BUT, curtailing that growth should be left to the individual deciding what to do while facing the true prices and options of the marketplace. Problem is, the political class siezes the right to decide what growth s/b, and the "correct" type of growth now gets decided by the highest bidder for the politicians, not the individual.
This is just another reason to STOP IMMIGRATION TO THE US NOW!!!
Once people get here, they start consuming, so, FOR THE SAKE OF THE EARTH, kick illegals out NOW!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umFnrvcS6AQ
We have hit Peak Americans!
AGENDA 21!
Hey Tyler, why are you posting information from a site that quote: "This is the number one place to find out everything you want to know about International Business Degrees!" That and most of the information comes from questionable sources.
Looks like a bubble. So i guess we can expect pop.
Is that "Americans", or "US 'american' citizens"?
While both are parangongs of expressing their eternal blobbing-up nature through the monolizing of the consumptionalizing means, the difference is mattering, very much something.
Alas, alas, alas three times, how many Easter Islands would have to be sunk by US citizenism founding fathers using Ben Franklin lightning powered time traveling flying rickshaw inventionated for George Washington to go back in time to sink the Easter Islanders before 1776, July, 4th, going to settle in these places to bring the light of US citizenism, to sustain a world full of US 'american' citizenism citizens?
This was pinpointed by Ben Franklin somehow in one text where he claimed to go after freckled red heads next time he is hit by one, I think.
Made me laugh!
McFly or McLovin?
I almost understood you. Is that bad?
Falacious Club of Rome reasoning. We already have more than 4.4 Earths at our fingertips - we have the entire solar system. I advocate an atomic rocket program - restart Nerva.
We can thank the Fed. for being #1 in food expenditure and trash categories...
This is why it makes no sense when people bitch about China polluting and swarming like locusts. At least, until they manage to modernize up to the prized US 5 star consumption status.
Party on.
Smells like bullshit.
Arrest the billionaires. Redistribute their stolen wealth. Close down Walmart, Target and Staples. Convert them to landfills. Force Washington D.C. to be its own country and deny them visas. Redistribute the stolen wealth of the lucky. Force everyone to complete 4 years of college, serve in the military and carry a gun. Try the bankers for treason and disallow corporations the rights of individuals. Make Bitcoin the national currency. Make clothes voluntary except for fat people. And, long live the revolution.
Starting to get Snorgtee ads. I wonder if I'll ever see my camel toe again.
I'm with you so long as you make the fucktards pull up their pants
Wonder just how much of that waste is coming from unnecessary purchases? The items that "Everyone" just "HAD to have", but will quickly end up in landfill once the novelty / trendiness "value" has worn off??
Blame the Chinese again?? They might manufacture the stuff, but Americans choose to buy it - it's hardly coercion. Australians are no different - "must have the very latest mobile / IPad / whatever", and although this user MUST be the exception (15 handsets in ONE Year???), I know MANY colleagues that regard a "Smart-Phone" as only having a 1 year useful life, before it "needs" to be upgraded!! http://www.phonedog.com/2012/07/16/how-often-do-you-switch-phones/.
Mind you if you are addicted to your smartphone, than I suppose it's an "essential Lifestyle" upgrade - http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/reading-between-the-headlines/201307/smartphone-addiction which says a lot for "Modern Society"!
Oh, do shut up.
PRINT MOAR PLANETS!
We have lots of ink.
Think about all the atoms in the world. They're still going to exist whatever happens. As George Carlin said, "The world doesn't care about us. We'll be washed away and the world won't care!"
Time to wipe out the Politically Correct and so save the planet.
Every year we continue to do our part, our patriotic duty if you will:
Buying tons of shit we don't need
With money we don't have
To impress people we don't really like
Ahhhhh, it is so gratifying to fill the Luciferians coffers
So, the point is?
I call BS on the booze consumption..
I rarely drink.. So that means somebody out there is boozing up almost six 750ml of 80-proof each month?
M'kay...
;) moi. easy.
NASA needs to re-evaluate new colonization to Mars. This speculative 4.4 might mean Jupiter can better be suited to handle peeps in terms of size.
/LOL
Just for shits and giggles:
http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2011/199/book-water-...
Hee hee.
Fiscal Overcomsumption = Debt = Slavery
Time to go on a diet and STB (STARVE THE BEAST)
Who cares if we use the most energy? Doesn't anyone understand basic economics anymore?
When a light bulb goes off in America (you know, to save the planet), another one pops on in China. THIS directly leads to lost jobs in America.
LIfe is a competition, people. You either win or you lose. Americans used to understand that.
Isn't it almost time for peak Ehrlichism?
Several years back I recall it being popular among college types to observe "the U.S. is 5% of the worlds population but uses 30% of it's resources". This was presumably evidense of our comsumptive unfairness.
I always agreed with them, suggesting that the only way to be 'fair' was to immediatly cut our consumption by 5/6. They usually walked away angry. No one liked the idea of only having electricity 5 days a month.
You don't get it, they want YOU to cut back YOUR consumption. They obviously should not have to because they understand and are busy saving the world.
I remember seeing charts similar to this back in the 70's, all doom and gloom and we all gunna die soon. Sadly, the young hippies who promoted this garbage now older and in positions of power and are still promoting this garbage. Hippies never learn, they only get more shrill with age.
It would take 8.8 earths if all Americans in this hypothetical scenario designed to make America look bad lived the hypocritical life of largess of Jane Fonda, Al Gore and the Clintons and had the vacation financial "carbon foot print" of the Obama Family......
If we looked at the Saudis and thelifestyle of EU offricials, the American foot print on this planet becomes irrelevant.
China is developing a car that runs on smog
Interesting enough on the booze consumption the US doesn't lead on that as well considering the fact we lead everything else. But its because we don't booze it up like other nations that we can be productive enough to have all these other things. Nevertheless, the booze consumption list is off anyway. If we're talking about hard liquor which the scale seems to indicate, South Korea has ranked at the top the last few years by most every other recognized measuring stick.
Because nowadays everybody's popping pills or obese as a whale, don't drink don't smoke? What do you do?
Bullshit!
Bad asssumption #1: The pinnacle of mass distributed energy technology runs on hydrocarbons. There are other much better and more efficient technologies (and no I am not talking solar or wind), however those who control they system are able to enslave us better by limiting our access to energy through a monopolization of hydrocarbons.
Bad assumption #2: Without the efforts of proteges of Edward Bernays American would still want to buy things that they cannot afford and do not need. We are only forced to be ignorant consumers because of the false growth paradigm foisted upon us for the purpose of ensuring enough dollars are circulated outside the US to create a dependency that justifies it as the world's reserve currency. No dependency, no reserve currency.
Just more bullshit propaganda designed to assist in controlling people.
if it wasn't for the fucking Marxist governments of the world (our American government being the worst of all) and their eco-nazi scumbag idiots, like EPA, and the fucking carbon tax fags like Al Gore-pig, American farmers could produce enough food to feed the entire world easily. The governments do nothing but shut farmers down (while backing the scum sucking vampire Monsanto), not to mention steal all our land, steal water rights, regulate and tax the fuck out of production, sales, and transport, poison the environment so shit won't grow or has very little nutritional value...it goes on and on and on.
This planet can easily sustain everyone on it...we're barely scraping by and billions are starving due to genocidal, sociopaths in government...what little is grown and produced ends up getting destroyed and wasted once again by corrupt government scum and the sociopaths who infest said governments.
Meanwhile, those fucking sociopaths eat, drink, and live like kings while starving the majority of the people out. Guillotines would be too good for those mother fuckers.
Not to worry. If the NWO has its way, the population will be down to 0.5 billion. As George Carlin put it, "It's a big club, and you're not in it." All but the flouncy elites will still be on the brink of starvation, even with the population down under 10% of today. As Henry the K, another Nobel Peace Prize laureate put it, the useless eaters should be eliminated. Dat's you, grandma. But there will still be 80 inch LED TV's. Let the Hunger Games begin suckers.
BTW, the numbers in this article are bigger bullshit than the BLS.
I'm doing my part as far as the alcohol consumption is concerned. Six different cashiers at the liquor store in the my grocery store no longer card me because they've "carded me enough." Jebus bless 'murrica!
OKAY, I get it..
If you want your PLANet, you can keep your PLANet.
Good luck for the hominidae.
The amount of atoms will still exist, so probably the earth too.
Club of Rome, Prince Charles, Georgia Guidestones, Iron Mountain, Malthus, Fabian Society, Broken record old encrusted cement shit stuck in sealed asshole, Hey! You! be the first to reduce population. Stick your pretty charts up your ass.
ps: stick your footprint up there too.
What's the point of articles like this? Is America stopping India from being prosperous?
Earth allots 4.4 acres per person, people use 6.7 acres of land. How is that possible? Who is allotting the land? Who is allotted the land that was not allotted to humans? What happens when humans use more than their allotted portion?
Fractional reserve acres.
THis article is a bunch of Malthusian crap.
Yep, just more environMENTAL propaganda. Let THEM go live in a third world craphole, but no the environMENTAL lobbists have cushy offices on K Street in DC and probably live in luxury.
BTW, I live in Oregon that has the Columbia River and Bonneville (hydroelectric) Dam-did you know the environMENTALists don't consider hydro a "renewable powere resource" even tho the f-ing rain and snow are FREE?