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As a separate point from the countries not shown, you can't just average the dates - if I'm using half an earth's worth of resources every day, and you're using
by penteract 3y ago
As a separate point from the countries not shown, you can't just average the dates - if I'm using half an earth's worth of resources every day, and you're using half an earth's worth of resources every year, between us we use an earth's worth of resources much more often than once every 6 months. You need to take reciprocals to get consumption rates, then average, then convert back into a date. This results in an earlier date than just doing the weighted average of dates.
- sokoloff 3y agoQuite right. Thank you for pointing it out.
- MisterKent 3y agoNot in this case, since each country is calculated based approximately off its area. So, fractionally they do add up to one earth.
- penteract 3y agoBased on > A country’s overshoot day is the date on which Earth Overshoot Day would fall if all of humanity consumed like the people in this country. and https://www.overshootday.org/newsroom/country-overshoot-days/ https://www.overshootday.org/newsroom/country-overshoot-days... which specifies they use global biocapacity, I don't think a country's area is used in their calculations.