Earth overshoot day
It probably will come as little surprise to you that as a global population, humans use the planet’s natural resources at a rate that far exceeds any sustainable measure. With this in mind, it comes as little surprise that August 8, 2016, the world celebrated “Earth Overshoot Day.“ This “holiday” represents the day of the year where the world has officially reached the point where we have used as much from nature as our planet can renew in the whole year.
Yes, that’s right, we’re only into August of 2016 and we,as the Earth Overshoot Day website explains, have already used more ecological resources and services than nature can regenerate through overfishing, overharvesting forests and emitting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than forests can sequester. At this rate, we will need a total of 1.6 planet Earths to be able to sustain the human population.
Yes, that’s right, we’re only into August of 2016 and we,as the Earth Overshoot Day website explains, have already used more ecological resources and services than nature can regenerate through overfishing, overharvesting forests and emitting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than forests can sequester. At this rate, we will need a total of 1.6 planet Earths to be able to sustain the human population.
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