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World Overshoot Day 2006

2006-10-09

World Overshoot Day is getting earlier every year.

As human consumption of natural resources increases, World Overshoot Day - the day we exceed renewable capacity for a given year - gets earlier on the calendar. Overshoot Day 1987 was 19 December. Overshoot Day 2006 is 9 October.

Refer: Urban Ecology News

Question: What can we do to live within this planet's ability to support us?

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