August 8: Earth Overshoot Day

August 8, 2016 is the day we, as all the humans on this planet, have now used the whole of 2016’s bio capacity that Nature has left to ‘offer us’ to help clean up our wastes and emissions. I say left to offer us, as we all know how we have just devastated the natural resources, and still are doing so….

For the next 4.8 months we are are essentially relying on credit from Nature, when Nature hasn’t any credit and isn’t a credit provider……

Today is called ‘Earth Overshoot’ day, and I’d really encourage you to read more and try and understand what this really means here  There is a great education section.

This Overshoot Day site is part of the Global Footprint Network’s site and their great work……