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This metric _does not _ divide ecological impact by population. Quoting the first line of the page: “Earth overshoot day marks the date when humanity’s demands
by pinkmuffinere 3y ago
This metric _does not _ divide ecological impact by population. Quoting the first line of the page: “Earth overshoot day marks the date when humanity’s demands for ecological resources and services … exceeds what earth can generate in that year”
Having more population does not improve your score on this metric.The world would be much better in terms of ecological resources if we all lived like Bangladesh.
- sokoloff 3y ago"This metric" in context is the country overshoot day. If we're going to quote the page, quoting the right part of the page is important. > 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. That does inherently have a per-capita nature of the consumption in a given country.
- pinkmuffinere 3y agoThat’s fair — when extrapolating to the whole earth’s population, you do have to divide by the country’s population and scale up to the earths population. However, I think the intent of “Earth Overshoot Day” still stands. If every person consumed ecological resources at the same rate as a Bangladeshi, we would be consuming less.