From the Global Footprint Network website I get depressed when I read about things like 16 of your favorite things that climate change is totally screwing up (and half of them are things you eat and drink) and Earth Overshoot Day on Aug. 20. This date, marking the time in a year's cycle that human activity goes beyond what the planet can replenish, has been coming earlier every year. "Throughout most of history, humanity has used nature’s resources to build cities and roads, to provide food and create products, and to absorb our carbon dioxide at a rate that was well within Earth’s budget.