Scary Infographics: We’re Overdrawn

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Thanks to our friends at GOOD we won’t be able to sleep tonight, so we thought we’d pay it forward. As they explain it, as of last Friday afternoon we’d exhausted our natural resources for this year; or in other words, as it stands “our collective global lifestyle would require 1.4 Earths to meet demand.” The image above is from Earth Overshoot Day 2008, which took place on September 23 — a whopping two days earlier. So that’s something.