Boy it's going to be fun for future generations to live with all the cons and none of the pros of our modern lifestyle, thanks to heavy industry.
It is inaccurate to simply look at media accounts from previous years to determine past Earth Overshoot Days. Indeed, a true apples-to-apples comparison of Earth Overshoot Days can only be made using the same edition of the National Footprint Accounts. For instance, it would make no sense to compare the date of Earth Overshoot Day 2007 as it was calculated that year—and reported by the media at the time—with the date of Earth Overshoot Day 2018, because improved historical data and new findings such as lower net carbon sequestration by forests have slightly shifted the results. Even a few percentage points change can shift the date of Earth Overshoot Day by a good number of days. This is why, ultimately, the precise Earth Overshoot Day date for each year is less significant than the sheer magnitude of the ecological overshoot, as well as the overall trend of the date progression year over year—which, as you now understand, is rigorously identical to that of the Ecological Footprint (given the fact that biocapacity remains basically unchanged.) Over the last decades, the date has been creeping up the calendar every year, although at a slowing rate.
Source:
https://www.overshootday.org/why-past-earth-overshoot-day-dates-keep-changing/
Future generations?
This could seriously impact most of our lives in our later years.
We're going to have it easy compared to them, assuming worst case scenario when our wealthiest cities begin to sink and certain equator regions become too hot to sustain human life.
Elon Musk will save the earth.
Where's Thanos when you need him?
we don't need to get rid of a random 50% of the world, just a very specific 1%
It sucks that there’s corporations valuing the cash they make over the earth.
If everyone really pushed for renewable energy and better sourcing for everything, I’m sure we’d be able to have everything renewable/clean in such a short time.
im sure most the corporations who are ruining this planet are run by old guys who will die before they see the results, anyway. That and money does shit to you.
Overpopulation is a serious problem
Distribution of resources is a far more serious problem than overpopulation. The Earth could sustainably support far more people than are alive today if humans weren't greedy, wasteful idiots.
Not only that, but they know they will be the last people on Earth to be negatively impacted by this in any significant way due to the resources available to them.
this is depressing as fuck
Overpopulation is a fascist myth created to justify racism and ethnical cleansing and driving away attention from how destructive late capìtalism is. It also guilt-trips people and blames them for things that are out of their control.
Nestle is still going to want to privatise water no matter how much you recycle or how many times you suicide-bait others for having kids, for example
Less "force veganism and mass genocide because there's too many south-east asians and brown people" and more "eat the rich/right"
What
When did I say I want to ethnically cleanse people and drive people to suicide
Not you, but people who defend population control do go into that slippery slope way too frequently
oh fair enough
Ok that makes sense that fascist/ethno-state dipshits would consider that as a "Solution" to overpopulation.
Overpopulation is actually a problem that can happen in the near-future, i think you're confusing their "Solution" of Overpopulation with the actual concept of Overpopulation.
not everyone is Thanos
Oh man this sucks to see every year.
Someone hasn't worked in a restaurant
what
Exactly. If you saw even a little bit of the food wastage that goes on all over the world, you'd know first hand... That and there have been studies posted over and over and over and over about how overpopulation is a myth but people NEVER GET IT
How is food waste related to the concept of overpopulation
What? What do you think that overpopulation threatens if not resources? You think we're gonna run out of space or something???
Construction destroying natural environments, especially with new housing
You mean deforestation? Most of it is because of livestock agriculture. We have heaps of space to continue housing our population.
Also, as third and second world countries get richer, the birth rate will drop and our population won't grow at the current rate. It could even go backwards. So that might be a whole other problem
When you say overpopulation is a myth, do you mean at current levels? Or that it's impossible to have more people on the earth than can be sustained long term?
If it's the second one, please post some of the studies, it sounds like it's worth reading about.
More like it's not going to happen due to projected population trends
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