Alcohol Overshoot Day -- a concept devised by U.K.-based new economics foundation -- marks an unfortunate milestone: the day in which we exhaust our alcohol budget for the year. Once we pass Alcohol Overshoot Day, humanity will have demanded all the ecological services – from yeast and grains to hops and barley – that nature can provide this year. From that point until the end of the year, we meet our ecological demand by liquidating resource stocks and depleting cases of beer in the refrigerator.
Global Footprint Network calculates nature's supply in the form of biocapacity, the amount of resources the planet generates each year, and compares that to human demand: the amount it takes to produce all the alcohol we consume and absorb our subsequent emissions. Earth Overshoot Day marks the day when demand on ecological services begins to exceed the renewable supply.
Global Footprint Network will announce the date of Earth Overshoot Day 2010 approximately a week before the day occurs.
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