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Earth overshoot day is not a serious movement. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22029445-000-admit-it-we-cant-measure-our-ecological-footprint/ https://w

• defrost 3y ago
  "10 year old opinion piece says it's hard to measure resource footprint" Sure. So what's your estimate on our current resource burn rate with > 8 billion people, several tens of billion tonnes of ore extraction per annum, terrawatts of energy generation causing problems with the atmosphere, etc. We golden, or are the cracks starting to show? The key point you're missing isn't * whether or not the people that originally looked at resource burn rates Vs. renewals got their sums correct, but * whether the idea that globally we're overstripping our resources is sound. Your link agrees that this is an issue: But I for one imagined that the footprint analysis was a bit smarter, that it had some handle on how we are overusing our soils and water reserves. Sadly, it does not measure the things that most of us assumed it does – and the things we really need to know. So, ten years on, do we have a better understanding of our sustainable usage?