Overshoot Day
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The Earth
Can handle pollution and still support us… but its capacity is limited.
It’s the balance between how much we can pollute and consume and what the earth can support that is at the heart of being ecologically minded.
On July 11th we’ll observe the Feast Day of St. Benedict and on-or-around that time, the world’s population will have consumed and polluted to the limit of Earth’s ability to withstand in a year. Any consumption or pollution done, from that date till New Year’s eve will be at the expense of irreplaceable resources and beyond the capacity of natural systems to compensate for.
We call this Earth Overshoot Day.
As resident’s of Lacey and Olympia however, our personal “Overshoot Day” is much closer to the Ides of March.
If you would like to calculate your own household’s Overshoot day and see the ecological footprint your daily life leaves, you can use the online calculator at https://www.footprintcalculator.org/home/en
