Credited by my instructor, Graham Plumb

3. World population has increased by 50% in the last 50 years.
< about 50 years ago

4. Consumption of natural resources has increased by 1000% in the past 50 years.
www.gapminder.org

5. Over 90% of the resources taken out of the ground today become waste within 3 months

6. We have used up 1/3 of our planet’s resources in the last 50 years.

7. Deepwater Horizon : The Movie
Essential Materials are getting harder to find.

8. It is predicted that at present rates of consumption, reserves of many types
of useful matter will have vanished by the end of the century.
Figure 7. Graph showing ratios of
global reserves to annual global
production (consumption) for most
mineral and energy commodities
for 1992; the ratios provide a rough
indication of the adequacy (in
years) of currently known global
reserves (from Kesler, 1994).
http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/2007/1294/reports/paper9.pdf

9. Is ‘recycling’ even real, and isn’t it too late by then anyway?