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Today is Earth Overshoot Day

The planet has increasing difficulties keeping up with the speed with which humanity is consuming natural resources. As of today, we have used up all resources the earth can produce in 2008, i.e. we are now borrowing from 2009.

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Earth Day rally draws massive crowd in Montreal

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