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Earth Overshoot Day 2017: Our Share of Earth’s Resources This Year are Gone.

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 12:00:04 +0000

Yesterday was Earth Overshoot Day. Earth’s resources are all we have right now when it comes to food, construction materials, a large part of the energy extracted, air and water. Yesterday, we’ve just depleted our consumption ratio for this year. What this means is that Earth can’t regenerate what we’ve consumed so far this year […]

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United States and Qatar Named Environmental Plunderers on Earth Overshoot Day

Leigh Hutchens — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 01:50:20 +0000

On August 20th, Global Footprint Network, an international think-tank, named the United States and Qatar environmental plunderers, declaring that the two countries have already exhausted a year’s budget of natural resources. Calling the event Earth Overshoot Day, Global Footprint Network stated that their metrics determined that in the past eight months, both countries have continued their […]

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