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Earth Overshoot Day

calculated calendar date on which humanity's consumption for the year exceeds Earth’s capacity to regenerate those resources that year
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Earth Overshoot Day

Summary

Earth Overshoot Day is an awareness day[1]. It draws 270 Wikipedia views per month (awareness_day category, ranking #5 of 43).[2]

Key Facts

  • Earth Overshoot Day's video is recorded as Globaler Erdüberlastungstag – kurzerklärt.webm[3].
  • Earth Overshoot Day's image is recorded as 1971- Earth Overshoot Day.svg[4].
  • Earth Overshoot Day's instance of is recorded as awareness day[5].
  • Earth Overshoot Day's logo image is recorded as Earth Overshoot Day logo.png[6].
  • Earth Overshoot Day's Commons category is recorded as Earth Overshoot Day[7].
  • Earth Overshoot Day's point in time is recorded as +2024-08-01T00:00:00Z[8].
  • Earth Overshoot Day's point in time is recorded as +2023-08-02T00:00:00Z[9].
  • Earth Overshoot Day's point in time is recorded as +2022-07-28T00:00:00Z[10].
  • Earth Overshoot Day's point in time is recorded as +2021-07-29T00:00:00Z[11].
  • Earth Overshoot Day's point in time is recorded as +2020-08-22T00:00:00Z[12].
  • Earth Overshoot Day's point in time is recorded as +2019-07-29T00:00:00Z[13].
  • Earth Overshoot Day's point in time is recorded as +2018-08-01T00:00:00Z[14].
  • Earth Overshoot Day's point in time is recorded as +2017-08-02T00:00:00Z[15].
  • Earth Overshoot Day's point in time is recorded as +2016-08-08T00:00:00Z[16].
  • Earth Overshoot Day's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05zrszv[17].
  • Earth Overshoot Day's official website is recorded as https://www.overshootday.org/[18].
  • Earth Overshoot Day's defining formula is recorded as \frac{ \text{world biocapacity}}{\text{world ecological footprint}} \times 365 = \text{EOD}[19].
  • Earth Overshoot Day's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[20].
  • Earth Overshoot Day's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 168622376[21].

Why It Matters

Earth Overshoot Day draws 270 Wikipedia views per month (awareness_day category, ranking #5 of 43).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] It is known by 24 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . overshoot.footprintnetwork.org. overshoot.footprintnetwork.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . overshootday.org. overshootday.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . dailymail.co.uk. dailymail.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . overshootday.org. overshootday.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . euronews.com. euronews.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . edition.cnn.com. edition.cnn.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . theguardian.com. theguardian.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . overshootday.org. overshootday.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . blog.nationalgeographic.org. blog.nationalgeographic.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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