Guest Blog: To Stop Having an Earth Overshoot Day, Stop Shooting the Earth’s Protectors
Nick Meynen is an author of literary non-fiction books and a regular contributor to Meta , The Ecologist and MO* magazine . He works as a Policy Officer for Environmental and Economic Justice at the European Environmental Bureau (EEB). This blog appeared first in Metamag: The News Channel of the European Environmental Bureau. It may be the start of August – but 2018 should really be over. Humanity already used the amount of resources that the earth can regenerate this year. At the same time, violence against those who protect the earth is on the rise. Earth Overshoot Day never fell as early as this year: on 1 August. From now until December we’re eating up resources that have accumulated over the past 4 billion years. An increasing number of these resources are steadily evolving towards “out of stock”. Earth Overshoot Day is calculated by dividing the world’s biocapacity (the amount of natural resources generated by Earth that year), by the worl...