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Earth Overshoot Day is the day when—according to estimates—the total combined consumption of all human activity on Earth in a year overtakes the planet's ability to generate those resources for that year.
How is it measured ? "It's quite simple," says Dr. Mathis Wackernagel of the think tank Global Footprint Network. "We look at all the resource demands of humanity that compete for space, like food, fiber, timber, et cetera, then we look at how much area is needed to provide those services and how much productive surface is available."
Here's his bottom line metaphor. Earth Overshoot Day is like the day you spend more than your salary for a year, only you are all humans and your salary is Earth's biocapacity. Ideally, Overshoot Day would come after December 31. It wasn't too far off in 1970, when it occurred on December 23. But Overshoot Day creep has kicked in ever since. August 13 is the earliest yet—four days ahead of last year's previous record.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/08/150813-earth-overshoot-day-earlier/
(Score: 2) by kurenai.tsubasa on Saturday August 15 2015, @04:29AM
Well, that's fscking weird.
*wobbles with b33r in hand*
I don't pretend to understand non-Amazon women. Then again, granted, there's this annual festival thinger where the Amazons go out, get drunk, and fuck anything with a cock. But it's intentional! (No, boys, tonight is not the night! It's just Friday!)
Ok, I'm only a quasi-Amazon, not born Amazon, was Amazon for a while, kinda branched out. I'm on the pill. I really don't get it.
WTF is wrong with this species?!
Ok, confounding data point! Did the pill become free at the same time abortions were legalized?
There has to be something more to this effect. I'm not doubting the data. Does male aggressiveness increase when abortion is illegal? Correlation is not causation?