While looking for some up to date figures on ecological footprints, I came across this information, which is similar to the NEF idea of our planet going into ecological debt.
Earth Overshoot Day is the date when we start eating into the earth's resources.
Earth Overshoot Day marks an unfortunate milestone: the day in which we exhaust our ecological budget for the year. Once we pass this 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.
Fits with the recent resurgence of the issue of discards and the Hugh's FISH FIGHT campaign, that I blogged about some months ago, and the story that there are only enough fish in the seas around the UK to sustain the industry for half the year.
Earth Overshoot Day is the date when we start eating into the earth's resources.
Earth Overshoot Day marks an unfortunate milestone: the day in which we exhaust our ecological budget for the year. Once we pass this 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.
Fits with the recent resurgence of the issue of discards and the Hugh's FISH FIGHT campaign, that I blogged about some months ago, and the story that there are only enough fish in the seas around the UK to sustain the industry for half the year.
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