As a species, we’re into deficit spending for the year on the stuff that really 
matters, the stuff that keeps us going. Yesterday was estimated to be Earth Overshoot Day 2014: the day when we’ve used up our budget on ecosystems services for the year, and we start stealing from the future to keep doing what we’re doing now. And that’s not even taking into account the nonrenewable stuff like minerals that we’re just plain running out of.
Ponderings of a Perplexed Primate 