2nd August 2023
Today is Earth Overshoot Day – the day when we have used up a full year’s supply of the world’s renewable resources – ie the productive capacity of fresh water (for drinking etc) , fishing grounds, arable and grazing land, forests, space for urban infrastructure and recreation, capacity for absorbing waste such as sewage and carbon dioxide. Here after we will be living in the red, taking more than our fair share from the earth such that others will suffer – through lack of clean water, declining soil fertility, low crop yields and lack of food, declining fish stocks, deforestation and biodiversity loss, air pollution, over heating and extreme weather events, etc.
The organisations that calculate Earth Overshoot Day (including the New Economics Foundation, the Global Footprint Network and the WWF) are equally interested in solutions – the ‘Power of Possibility’.
They highlight different schemes and approaches that could – and are – being taken to reduce the our human impact in the earth . From planting more forests to designing smart cities, from developing a circular fashion industry to food waste prevention legislation, from developing rural solar and micro grids to ending single use plastics.
A different, better world is possible.
For more info – https://greentau.org/2023/05/13/green-tau-issue-69/
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