Posted on 07/29/2021 9:29:50 AM PDT by Olog-hai
After a temporary reprieve due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Earth Overshoot Day — the day humanity is projected to have used up all the planet’s biological resources regenerated in one year — has shifted forward again, this year landing on July 29.
“With almost half a year remaining, we will already have used up our quota of the Earth’s biological resources for 2021,” said Susan Aitken, leader of Glasgow City Council, where world leaders will gather later this year for the COP26 climate summit in November. “If we need reminding that we’re in the grip of a climate and ecological emergency, Earth Overshoot Day is it.”
As much of the world was living under coronavirus lockdowns in 2020, last year’s Overshoot Day fell on August 22, nearly a month later than the high of July 25 set in 2018. But this year, even though carbon emissions from air travel and road transport are still lagging 2019 highs, a rallying global economy is pushing emissions and consumption back up. […]
Earth Overshoot Day, first created in 2006, aims to calculate the number of days per year that correspond to the necessary biocapacity — the ability of an ecosystem to reestablish its biological resources and absorb waste — to account for civilization’s ecological footprint. …
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Our quota.
F them.
dystopian science fiction.
What is this our quota crap you got a turd in your pocket
> ...where world leaders will gather later this year for the COP26 climate summit in November. <
How much of the world’s resources will be used to get those big shots to the summit city (Glasgow)?
Just curious.
“Earth Overshoot Day”
Oh, please...
Never heard of it myself until now. Apparently was concocted in 2006.
Shouldn't we all have been dead in 2007?
My God, they’re telling the lies bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger every single day!
We need some of these alarmists to stand up and take one for the team.
Not according to the UN, who predicted 50 million climate refugees by 2010 (and then scrubbed the website when that didn’t happen).
It’s Deutsche Welle...”progressive” German news agency..
so there’s that.
Neo-Lysenkoism rears it’s stupid ugly head...yet again.
”That’s not how this works.”
I used to wonder how the Rapture could happen and the world not take notice and start repenting. Now I know...
As would say, these are the jokes son. They were funny then, they are funny now.
As the Daleks shout in their harsh staccato voices, "Earth Overshoot Day — Earth Overshoot Day — ejaculate — ejaculate — you will be destroyed!"
Thomas Malthus. Please pick up the white phone.
Paging Thomas Malthus. Please call your office.
Ummmm...okay.
our quota
what’s China’s quota?
Not sure if perpetually “developing nations” get quotas.
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