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Living on borrowed time: Earth Overshoot Day on 2 August means the rest of the year is in overshoot

  Tomorrow, 2 August, is Earth Overshoot Day for this year, the date on which humanity’s resource consumption for the year is estimated to exceed Earth’s capacity to regenerate those resources. By the end of the year, we will have used 1.7 times the sustainable resource limit. According to Sustainable Population Australia (SPA), that’s bad enough, but Australia’s Overshoot […]

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