Planet 2025, October 6, 2007
The Global Footprint Network today revealed October 6 is Ecological Debt day – the day when humanity has consumed all the resources the planet will produce this year. Data from Global Footprint Network and UK-based partner nef (the new economics foundation) shows that starting in the mid 1980s humanity’s Ecological Footprint has been bigger than what the planet can supply, and we have been adding more to our ecological debt each year. By 1996, humanity was using 15 percent more resources in a year than the planet could supply, with Ecological Debt Day falling in November. Today, with Ecological Dept day falling on October 6th, our overshoot is 30 percent. Read more...
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