š We consume more than our Earth makes. If we consider the resources we have, from water to clean air to food, as an annual budget, our species has significantly overdrawn the planet's ability to regenerate.ā
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The globalfootprintnetwork has been assessing our consumption and marking the day we 'overshoot' each year, using 15,000 data points collected by the United Nations across four main factors: how much we consume, how efficiently we make stuff, our population, and nature's productivity. ā
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This year, that day is today. It's the earliest it's ever been. This means, every minute after today, we are depleting the Earth in a way that it cannot recover. To support human civilization as it stands right now, we need 1.7 Earths. By 2030, we'll need two.ā
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The GFN estimates that 86% of countries are currently living in an 'ecological deficit'. And if the entire world consumed resources at the rate that we do here in America, overshoot day would fall on March 15.ā
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