Earth Overshoot Day

Earth Overshoot Day, also called Ecological Debt Day, was on September 23. This is the day in 2008 by which humanity had used up all the resources generated by the planet in that year. Humans consume 1.4 planets’ worth of global resources each year and thus, from September 23`d onwards, the earthlings ate up into the natural capital of the earth, thereby undermining the ability to produce for the future. Needless to say, if we continue to consume on credit, we’d be accumulating ecological debt that would be impossible to pay back.

We, of course, have only one earth. Consuming more resources than the earth can produce means we’re spending more than we are earning. The most visible and logical outcome of our greed is climate change which is due to carbon being emitted faster than can be reabsorbed by the planet’s environment. Very soon, we need to reverse this trend and shift from a materialistic mindset to a simpler lifestyle, lest we start living on a barren planet which is unable to sustain kites anymore.