Imagine maxing out your credit card months before the year ends …. that is what we do to Earth’s resources every year and Earth Overshoot Day serves as a reminder.
Once we get past this point, for the rest of the year we are using resources faster than nature can replenish them.
On 1st August, we officially blew past Earth's annual budget for natural resources.
Earth Overshoot Day has been creeping up earlier each year since the 1970s, shining a spotlight on the widening gap between our consumption and the planet's ability to keep up.
Just 4 years ago, Earth Overshoot Day arrived on 22nd August. Right now, we would need 1.7 Earths to meet our resource demands.
As individuals, we have the power to better our homes and our communities, to live a different life.
However, the greatest potential for large-scale impact, lies with governments and businesses who align their policies and strategies with the reality of our finite planet.
Everyone needs to step up!
In the UK, own country's Overshoot Day is not the worst but we are a long way off being the best ....
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