Our Environmental Deficit is Now Beyond Nature’s Ability to Regenerate

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Dead Sea. Photograph: © SAF – Coastal Care

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The world enters ecological ‘overshoot’ this year on 13 August -marking the date when humanity exhausted nature’s budget for the year- six days earlier than last year. All the world’s production and consumption for the rest of the year, this suggests, then runs up an environmental deficit beyond nature’s ability to regenerate itself and safely absorb our economic waste. It’s a highly conservative estimate…

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