earth overshoot day

Oh darn, we missed “Earth Overshoot Day,” on Monday. I guess we were too busy “overexploiting the planet,” or, as normal people call it, just leading our lives.

Well, there’s always next year.

That is, if we haven’t “overexploited” the planet out of existence.

Or something.

Via Breitbart.

“We use more ecological resources and services than nature can regenerate through overfishing, overharvesting forests and emitting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than forests can sequester,” the group exclaims on its website.

“On August 8, 2016, we will have used as much from nature as our planet can renew in the whole year,” GFN announces.

According to a breathless article in the French daily Le Monde, complete with infographics, we would need 1.6 “earths” in order to sustain humanity’s current level of consumption.

Fear of consuming all the earth’s resources is as old as human population studies, with their most celebrated exponent—Rev. Thomas Malthus—having already laid out his apocalyptic theories in the late 18th century. In his 1798 Essay on the Principle of Population,

Malthus described in now-familiar terms how population growth would soon exceed man’s ability to produce food, leading to mass starvation and wars….

For all its cleverness, “Earth Overshoot Day” shows every indication of being more of the same—artificially generated panic based on a series of projections that have little to no basis in fact.

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