What is Earth Overshoot Day and Why Does it Matter?
What is Earth Overshoot Day and Why Does it Matter? – Video Transcript
Earth Overshoot Day is a measure of the resources that we consume, and currently, as a planet, we consume all our resources that we can produce in the single year by August 2nd as of 2016. And if we all live like we do in the US, we’d be consuming all those resources by March. So it’s not a sustainable picture, and Aqua Harvest is a company that’s come up with a way to produce, as it says in the video, up to four million pounds of fish or vegetables, in the same time and space that it is takes to grow one cow.
