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We have an overdraft with the earth something in excess of 130 per cent. We currently consume something like 30 per cent over and above what we are replacing and rather like an overdraft at a bank that can't go on.

Michael Meacher
Growth, Excess, Goes On
"Michael Meacher MP: humans only have 200-300 years left on earth". Interview with Tom Levitt, theecologist.org. July 22, 2010.
We have an overdraft with the earth something in excess of 130 per cent. We currently consume something like 30 per cent over and above what we are replacing and rather like an overdraft at a bank that can't go on.