Living on borrowed time: Earth Overshoot Day on 2 August

Jacquelene

The current world population is 8.1 billion and growing by well over 70 million a year. This is simply not sustainable. It is reflected in the catastrophic state of our climate. Records are breaking everywhere with the hottest July for over 120,000 years, declining sea-ice, high sea-surface temperatures and freshwater pouring into the North Atlantic, threatening to shut off the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) that will have far-reaching effects around the globe.

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