Today is Earth Overshoot Day. Unlike most national or world days, it's not something to celebrate. Today EOD falls on August 2nd. That means "humans have already used up their allowance for water, soil, clean air and other resources on Earth for the whole of 2017... The date, earlier this year than in 2016, means humanity will survive on 'credit' until 31 December... [By today,] we will have used more from Nature than our planet can renew in the whole year.” Which is to say, "the equivalent of 1.7 planets would be needed to produce enough natural resources to match our consumption rates and a growing population."
I don't know if Busimanolotome Osceola, my passed father-in-law and founder of the New Seminole, was aware of this record-keeping (since 1986) but this is the first time Nokosee and I have ever heard of it. According to the linked article above, the EOD has "never fallen so early as in 2017."
We suspect it will only get worse what with Trump in charge. Too bad for all of us.
I don't know if Busimanolotome Osceola, my passed father-in-law and founder of the New Seminole, was aware of this record-keeping (since 1986) but this is the first time Nokosee and I have ever heard of it. According to the linked article above, the EOD has "never fallen so early as in 2017."
We suspect it will only get worse what with Trump in charge. Too bad for all of us.
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