Mark Primack | Doing the math: What have we lost?

Mark Primack | Doing the math: What have we lost?

Please forgive or indulge these summertime musings, but it’s finally sunk in that, in my lifetime, the human population of this planet has tripled and, given the marvels of modern medicine, I may live to see it quadruple, though I doubt there’ll be much joy in that. Americans represent 5% of the current planetary population of 8 billion. Yet we consume 25% of the world’s natural resources. I was taught in grade school that that was cause for pri…