Back to the city again, dog-less, so an urban run for a change this morning, with the highlight of meeting a fox by the River Clyde, picking over the trash amongst all the apartment blocks and car parks.
The notion of humanity consuming at an unsustainable rate is not new. Today, the Independent is quoting a report from the Global Footprint Network which places the start of our over-spending of planetary resources at some time in the 1970s, although Wikipedia is more precise with 1986. Measured from January 1st each year, the day when we overshoot our annual ecological budget, (dubbed, logically, Earth Overshoot Day or Ecological Debt Day) has generally been moving forward, from December 19th in 1987 to August 21st in 2010. Counter-intuitively, this year's date has been calculated as September 27th, which probably has more to do with the big consumers having less money than a recognition of our need to consume less, but if that's what it takes, bring on the recession !
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