Tag: August 8th 2016

Living on Resources Taken from Future Generations

With the European debt crisis, the United Kingdom leaving the European Union and China’s continued economic slowdown compounding fears of a global financial system teetering on the edge, there is no doubt that we are living in an age of social and economic uncertainty. One of our few certainties is mankind’s increasing rate of consumption. There are only so many natural resources the earth can supply and on 8th August 2016 we breached our annual limit.

Earth Overshoot Day, also known as Ecological Debt Day, is when the human demand for natural resources exceeds what the planet can replenish annually. is the day when resource use outstrips our capacity for production, and is the point in the year when we have used as much land, trees and food that the planet’s ecosystem can regenerate.…