Earth Overshoot Day | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 02/12/2018

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Earth Overshoot Day


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Earth Overshoot Day (EOD), previously known as Ecological Debt Day (EDD), is the calculated illustrative calendar date on which humanity’s resource consumption for the year exceeds Earth’s capacity to regenerate those resources that year. Earth Overshoot Day is calculated by dividing the world biocapacity (the amount of natural resources generated by Earth that year), by the world ecological footprint (humanity's consumption of Earth’s natural resources for that year), and multiplying by 365, the number of days in one Gregorian common calendar year:

  
    
      
        (
        
          World Biocapacity
        
        
          /
        
        
          World Ecological Footprint
        
        )
        ×
        365
      
    
    {\displaystyle ({\text{World Biocapacity}}/{\text{World Ecological Footprint}})\times 365}
  
  
    
      
        
        =
        
          Earth Overshoot Day
        
      
    
    {\displaystyle \,={\text{Earth Overshoot Day}}}
  
When viewed through an economic perspective, EOD represents the day in which humanity enters an ecological deficit spending. In ecology the term Earth Overshoot Day illustrates the level by which human population overshoots its environment. In 2018, Earth Overshoot Day is on August 1.Earth Overshoot Day is calculated by Global Footprint Network and is a campaign supported by dozens of other nonprofit organizations. Information about Global Footprint Network's calculations and national Ecological Footprints are available online.