SINGAPORE - Humanity has become a bad debtor. For decades, it has been using up natural resources faster than the earth can regenerate them.
And each year, this ecological deficit widens to try to meet the needs of nearly eight billion people, underscoring a growing crisis that experts say threatens future generations and the health of the planet.
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