Earth Overshoot Day 2020, 22 August
... is the calculated illustrative calendar date on which humanity's resource consumption for the year exceeds Earth’s capacity to regenerate those resources that year.
The term "overshoot" represents the level by which human population overshoots the sustainable amount of resources on Earth. When viewed through an economic perspective, EOD represents the day in which humanity enters environmental deficit spending. EOD is calculated by dividing the world biocapacity (the amount of natural resources generated by Earth that year), by the world ecological footprint (humanity's consumption of Earth's natural resources for that year), and multiplying by 365, the number of days in a year: (Wikipedia)
In 1971 EOD was on December 21,
in 1987 it was on October 23,
last year the day was on July 29
and even the worldwide 'Corona lockdown break' this year brought only about 3 more weeks ...
UPDATE: in 2021 it was on July 29 again :-((
Robust tufted capuchins / Gehaubte Kapuziner (Sapajus apella)
at Pousada Rio Claro, Transpantaneira, Pantanal, MT, Brazil,
meditating about their future!
What about us?
Actually we need 1.75 planets with our style of living in worldwide average :-((
Earth Overshoot Day 2020, 22 August
... is the calculated illustrative calendar date on which humanity's resource consumption for the year exceeds Earth’s capacity to regenerate those resources that year.
The term "overshoot" represents the level by which human population overshoots the sustainable amount of resources on Earth. When viewed through an economic perspective, EOD represents the day in which humanity enters environmental deficit spending. EOD is calculated by dividing the world biocapacity (the amount of natural resources generated by Earth that year), by the world ecological footprint (humanity's consumption of Earth's natural resources for that year), and multiplying by 365, the number of days in a year: (Wikipedia)
In 1971 EOD was on December 21,
in 1987 it was on October 23,
last year the day was on July 29
and even the worldwide 'Corona lockdown break' this year brought only about 3 more weeks ...
UPDATE: in 2021 it was on July 29 again :-((
Robust tufted capuchins / Gehaubte Kapuziner (Sapajus apella)
at Pousada Rio Claro, Transpantaneira, Pantanal, MT, Brazil,
meditating about their future!
What about us?
Actually we need 1.75 planets with our style of living in worldwide average :-((