Overshoot
Earth Overshoot Day was 29 July in 2019. But does knowing this change behaviour? Each year we go into ecological debt when our resource consumption exceeds the Earth's capacity to regenerate those resources. Simply put, we start eating into our natural capital stocks, rather than living off renewable interest. But then the metaphor breaks down. Financial debt comes with a price: punitive interest rates. These act as an incentive to avoid debt, or to get out of debt quickly. With ecological debt, we lack that pain point. There are consequences, but we don’t feel them directly or immediately.
— Wayne Visser
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