On August 2, we will have used up all of the natural resources for 2017. That will be the “Overshoot Day.”
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00:30That means that we are taking more from nature than it can provide to us and that has negative
00:37effects.
00:38We have less safe drinking water, we have less fruits to eat.
01:06Nature can be thought of as living off of your credit card, you know, humanity is living
01:11off its ecological credit card.
01:14If we use more than nature can keep up with, we actually start to erode natural capital
01:19that life depends on.