August 8th 2016: Earth Overshoot Day

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Earth Overshoot Day is the date on which humanity’s resource consumption for the year exceeds Earth’s capacity to regenerate those resources that year. When viewed through an economic perspective, EDD represents the day in which humanity enters an ecological deficit spending. In ecology term Earth Overshoot Day illustrates the level by which human population overshoots its environment.
Earth Overshoot Day is calculated by Global Footprint Network and is a campaign supported by dozens of other nonprofit organizations.

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Website: http://www.overshootday.org/

Want to know the ecological footprint of your country?

http://www.footprintnetwork.org/ecological_footprint_nations/
 
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