A few of my friends sent me this BBC article thinking it was an April fools’ joke but unfortunately it is not.

There are already too many people living on Planet Earth, according to one of most influential science advisors in the US government.

Nina Fedoroff told the BBC One Planet programme that humans had exceeded the Earth’s “limits of sustainability”.

There are simply too many people for the planet to sustain and every year we’re using up resources faster than the Earth can generate.

In 2008, humanity used about 40% more in one year than nature can regenerate that same year. That means it takes over a year and three months for the Earth to regenerate what humanity is using in one year. This problem — using resources faster than they can regenerate and creating waste faster than it can be absorbed — is called ecological overshoot.

Sigh as a species we’re so screwed, luckily life does not need humans to survive.