Tuesday, September 27, 2011  It's Here! Earth Overshoot Day has
Arrived.  Nothing to celebrate, actually.   Today is estimated
to be the day on which mankind has consumed the entire stocks of
renewable resources our planet will generate this year.   Today
is Earth Overshoot Day.  As the graph shows, we're en route to
gobbling up 35 per cent more renewables than get renewed this
year.   How do we manage that?  Easy.   Some aspects of it,
things such as spreading deforestation and desertification, are
visible to the naked eye from the International Space Station.  
Other aspects are discernible in other ways.   For example, the
collapse in global fisheries which has fishing fleets
maintaining production only by continuously "fishing down the
food chain," going after the next most desirable fish as the
more desirable species are fished to commercial extinction. 
Perhaps most disturbing is the emptying of our ancient aquifers,
drawing many times their natural replenishment or recharge rate
in order to feed our de