Overshoot Day

Mean anything to you?  Probably not - and I had never heard of it until a couple of days ago.  It's the point in the year when what we have used of the earth's resources exceeds that which the earth is capable of producing in that year,  This year it was yesterday - August 1st - and the really bad news is that this date gets earlier every year.  It was first calculated in the mid 1980s, when the date was December 19th.  Scary, eh?