Ecological Debt Day

"Ecological Debt Day, also known as “Earth Overshoot Day”, is the calendar date in which the total resources consumed by humanity will exceed the capacity for the Earth to generate those resources that year." (Ecological Debt Day, Wikipedia) It's calculated by dividing the world's bicoapacity, the amount of natural resources produced by the Earth that year, by the world's ecological footprint and then multiplied by 365, the number of days in the calendar per year.

This is an example of the Ecological Debt Days from six different years. As you can see the Ecological Debt Day has gotten earlier and earlier each year. The authors of this day argue that this trend shows we as humans are falling deeper into ecological debt. The world is quite aware of this fact and still we do not do much to stop it, we continue living the lives that brought us to this state. "...why on earth would , say, would the UK export 20 tonnes of mineral water to Australia and then re-import 21 tonnes," said NEF director Andrew Simms. It is things like this that is destroying life as we know it. Countries not thinking straight, only doing what they see is best for them, not for the planet.