Thursday, August 13, 2015

Overshoot Day

According to the Global Footprint Network, today is the earliest within the year that humanity has exceeded a sustainable level of natural resource consumption.

Update (August 22):  One aspect of our over-exploitation of the environment according to a study published in Science is that "humans function as an unsustainable 'super predator'".

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