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Daily Archives: July 24, 2024

Earth Overshoot Day, or: What is your ecological footprint?

Posted on July 24, 2024 by admin
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This year, 2024, Earth Overshoot Day has been calculated for August 1.

Earth Overshoot Day is the day on which we humans have used up all ‘the sustainable amount of biological resources generated on earth’ (wikipedia):

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