Earth Overshoot Day: We used a year's worth of resources in seven months
Author: ABC News Date Posted:8 August 2017
There is a date every year when the world's resource bank goes into overdraft.
This year, Earth Overshoot Day is marked globally on August 2. For the rest of year we're in the burning red.
It's the point when the amount of natural resources — think trees, fish and water — humanity takes from the Earth reaches the total that can be regenerated over the entire year.
It's when the amount of carbon emitted reaches the amount the forests and oceans are able to absorb.
