1st August 2024
Today is Earth overshoot day, the day on which we have used up the whole year’s worth of the world’s capacity to replace regenerative resources – we fished our full quota from the oceans, maxed out on the atmosphere’s capacity to absorb carbon dioxide, cut down more than a year’s worth of timber, used up a year’s ration of soil fertility etc etc. Going beyond this point we are consuming now at the expense of future generations.
Of course this is not happening uniformly, nor equally, across all populations. Many smaller – ‘poorer’ or ‘less developed’ – nations have yet to reach their national overshoot day, whilst for many larger -‘richer’ or ‘highly developed’ – nations passed their national overshoot day some months ago. The UK’s overshoot day was 3rdJune. For the Republic of Moldovan it will be 28th December.
https://overshoot.footprintnetwork.org/
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