This day has been mentioned for most of the years that this blog has been in existence, and it has shifted over the years, so that it has generally taken place earlier each year.
The website has added a whole range of new resources and the #movethedate hashtag also thrown up a range of actions that can be taken.
This year, the date has actually been pushed back due to the impact of the pandemic:
To include the impacts from the coronavirus pandemic this year, Global Footprint Network combined the most reliable data and formed the most reasonable assumptions to assess humanity’s current resource situation.
Changes in carbon emissions, forest harvest, food demand, and other factors that could impact global biocapacity or the Ecological Footprint from January 1 to Earth Overshoot Day were evaluated. The main drivers were the carbon Footprint (reduced 14.5% from 2019) and the forest product Footprint (reduced 8.4% from 2019). Check out the highlights and/or the detailed research report explaining how the date of Earth Overshoot Day was calculated.
This is a topic which I think I will introduce into the curriculum for the new academic year.
There's an excellent image in the New York Times around this as well.
I think having a compeition to design an image to represent Earth Overshoot Day would be a good activity.
Source:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/climate/earth-overshoot-day.html
Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year.
The website has added a whole range of new resources and the #movethedate hashtag also thrown up a range of actions that can be taken.
This year, the date has actually been pushed back due to the impact of the pandemic:
To include the impacts from the coronavirus pandemic this year, Global Footprint Network combined the most reliable data and formed the most reasonable assumptions to assess humanity’s current resource situation.
Changes in carbon emissions, forest harvest, food demand, and other factors that could impact global biocapacity or the Ecological Footprint from January 1 to Earth Overshoot Day were evaluated. The main drivers were the carbon Footprint (reduced 14.5% from 2019) and the forest product Footprint (reduced 8.4% from 2019). Check out the highlights and/or the detailed research report explaining how the date of Earth Overshoot Day was calculated.
This is a topic which I think I will introduce into the curriculum for the new academic year.
There's an excellent image in the New York Times around this as well.
I think having a compeition to design an image to represent Earth Overshoot Day would be a good activity.
Source:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/climate/earth-overshoot-day.html
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