We’d say Happy Earth Overshoot Day but “happy” is really not the right word since today marks the date when our demand for ecological resources and services for 2021 exceeds what the Earth can regenerate. So from here until December 31, we’re eating into next year’s balance, or the year after that or the year after that or… you get the idea. When you consider the fact that calories from animal-based nourishment require a lot more resources to produce than calories from plant-based nourishment*, it’s pretty easy to understand how we humans got here so fast. It’s also easy to understand how by simply switching from animal-based eating to plant-based, we humans can help push next year’s Earth Overshoot Day to (possibly way) later in the year, which would qualify as not unhappy news, making the 2022 version of this post a lot more fun to read for sure. #MoveTheDate   *See, for example, Poore, J. Nemecek, T., 2018. Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumers. Scien...