In an unprecedented collaborative endeavor, Slovenia's Ministry of Environment, Climate and Energy, in partnership with Global Footprint Network, announces a critical date for the planet: this year’s Earth Overshoot Day, lands on August 2nd.
You might be interested in looking into carrying capacity of an ecosystem, and what happens when it is exceeded, aka overshoot.
The accounting methods and the underlying models vary. E.g. without cheap fossil energy the global carrying capacity is under one billion, perhaps as low as 100 million.
It’s the day when we’ve collectively used as many resources as the earth can produce in one year. This year, it was August 2.
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You might be interested in looking into carrying capacity of an ecosystem, and what happens when it is exceeded, aka overshoot.
The accounting methods and the underlying models vary. E.g. without cheap fossil energy the global carrying capacity is under one billion, perhaps as low as 100 million.