Earth Overshoot Day – 2010
What is Earth Overshoot Day?
Earth Overshoot Day — a concept devised by U.K.-based new economics foundation — marks an unfortunate milestone: the day in which we exhaust our ecological budget for the year. Once we pass Earth Overshoot Day, humanity will have demanded all the ecological services – from filtering CO2 to producing the raw materials for food – that nature can provide this year. From that point until the end of the year, we meet our ecological demand by liquidating resource stocks and accumulating carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
