Hello friendly readers and welcome to an info article on Earth Overshoot Day! In this article, I talk about 2025's Earth Overshoot Day, what this means, and the trends in global material use over time. What is Earth Overshoot Day? Firstly, let's dive into what an Overshoot Day even is. In order to understand it, let's think of the Earth for a moment as a wallet. This wallet has a finite amount of change in it, some notes etc and that's what we get to spend in a year, so in a sustainable world, we would count that change and budget it throughout the entire year. Earth Overshoot Day represents the point in a year where we get to the end of what we have in the wallet, and in essence we start using what is beyond our budget, representing a deficit. Now the actual Overshoot day is not economic at all, it is based on the ' biocapacity ' of the planet, which is what our ecosystems and natural environments can supply. So when w...
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