Did you know that, as a race, we humans used up all of our resources for the year on September 23, 2008? This means that all of the products and resources that our planet can produce in a year have been used up-- with several months left to go until 2009. That means, essentially, that we're "borrowing" the rest of the years resources from future years. From our children.
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Where do you fall on the consumption scale? Maybe somewhere near the top? With numbers this frightening, how will we possible surmount these seemingly insurmountable consumption rates? What can and others do to push back Earth Overshoot Day... or end it entirely?
