A fundamental effect of over-consumption is a reduction in the
planet's carrying capacity. Excessive unsustainable consumption
will exceed the long term carrying capacity of its environment
(ecological overshoot) and subsequent resource depletion,
environmental degradation and reduced ecological health. The
scale of modern life's over-consumption has enabled an overclass
to exist, displaying affluenza and obesity. However once again
both of these claims are controversial with the latter being
correlated to other factors more so than over-consumption. In
the long term these effects can lead to increased conflict over
dwindling resources and in the worst case a Malthusian
catastrophe. However, the Worldwatch Institute said the booming
economies of China and India are planetary forces that are
shaping the global biosphere. The State of the World 2006 report
said the two countries' high economic growth exposed the reality
of severe pollution. The report states The world's ecological
capacity is simply insufficien