Earth Overshoot Day occurs on the computed number of days into a year that human consumption exceeds the regenerative biocapacity of the biosphere.
| Earth Overshoot Day = | Earth’s Biocapacity | x 365 |
| Humanity’s Ecological Footprint |
For the remainder of 2016, demand outstrips supply.
"Humanity is living off its ecological credit card."Ecological footprint is the aggregated area of land and sea needed to supply resources to a human population. The Global Footprint Network estimates that, as of 2007, humans consume natural capital 1.5 times faster than it's renewed.
— Mathis Wackernagel, founder of the Global Footprint Network
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| Sunshower by Bob MacNeal |
"The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages."
— Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac, 1650
REFERENCES
- Ecological Footprint, Wikipedia.
- Global Footprint Network.
- Living Planet Report 2006, Global Footprint Network.
- The Other World: Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon, Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac, 1650.
