Through history, the consumption and production rates have been on an endless rise, and that is normal since humans are continuously growing in population, needs and technology advances. More recently, where these practices started to clash with our environment is when the production and consumption rates surpassed the actual needs of our population and the capacity of our resources. In fact, our ecological footprint has grown so much in the past 50 years that we would now need 1,6 planet earth (in 2020) to sustain our annual resource exploitation and absorb wastes that come with it…