{"id":88,"date":"2020-02-19T23:30:30","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T23:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/?p=88"},"modified":"2020-02-19T23:30:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T23:30:30","slug":"earth-overshoot-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/2020\/02\/19\/earth-overshoot-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Overshoot Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/earth_resources-700x495.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-89\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/earth_resources-700x495.jpg 700w, https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/earth_resources-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/earth_resources-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/earth_resources.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Humans are consuming more of Earth\u2019s resources than can be\nreplenished in a given year, that is, we are using resources that should be\navailable in the future to support our present mode of living.&nbsp; Earth Overshoot Day marks the date each year\nthat our demand on the Earth\u2019s resources exceeds what can be regenerated during\nthat same year.&nbsp; It is calculated by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footprintnetwork.org\/\">Global Footprint Network<\/a>, and in\n2019 the date was July 29<sup>th<\/sup>, the earliest date ever. While the date\nfor 2020 has not yet been calculated, it is a reasonable bet that the date this\nyear will be even earlier than last, given the ongoing growth in the human\npopulation and our failure to reign in the demand for resource consumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Continuing to borrow from the future to maintain the present\nis, of course, not sustainable.&nbsp; If we\ncontinue to outstrip the resources that the Earth is able to generate, future\ngenerations will pay a steep price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Global Footprint Network has been able to compile data\non resource use going back to 1961.&nbsp; The first\nyear that we overshot Earth\u2019s resources was 1970, when the overshoot date was\nDecember 29<sup>th<\/sup>, and we have been going downhill ever since.&nbsp; 2018 was the first year that the date slid\ninto July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Earth Overshoot Day website does offer a set of solutions\nfor moving the date back, which can be explored on their website at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.overshootday.org\/solutions\/\">https:\/\/www.overshootday.org\/solutions\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans are consuming more of Earth\u2019s resources than can be replenished in a given year, that is, we are using resources that should be available in the future to support our present mode of living.&nbsp; Earth Overshoot Day marks the date each year that our demand on the Earth\u2019s resources exceeds what can be regenerated &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/2020\/02\/19\/earth-overshoot-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earth Overshoot Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}