10 national biocapacities in 2007:
Ten countries alone accounted for over 60% of the Earth's biocapacity
(Global Footprint Network, 2010)
The World Wildlife Fund has released its 2010 Living Planet Report.
Australia does not fare well in the report's latest global assessment.
With an enviously high national biocapacity* Australians remain profligate in how they consume vital resources and the nation's ecological footprint is disproportionate to its population size.
Of 152 countries ranked in order of their destruction of the world's natural resources, Australia is eighth, behind nations such as the United Arab Emirates, the US and Canada - performing much worse than countries including China and the United Kingdom.
A disturbing fact that for which all of us (including those Murray-Darling Basin communities currently agitating over water rights) should reserve some serious thinking time.
*Biocapacity refers to the capacity of a given biologically productive area to generate an on-going supply of renewable resources and to absorb its spillover wastes.
Unsustainability occurs if the area’s ecological footprint exceeds its biocapacity.
Source: GreenFacts
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