Globally, we are consuming resources faster than the Earth can replenish them. If we think of these resources — such as timber, water, and clean air — like an allowance, then we spent our allotment for 2019 on July 29. We are over-fishing, extracting, mining, polluting, depleting, and harvesting resources across the globe. We reach Earth Overshoot Day , the day when annual consumption exceeds the Earth’s capacity to renew itself, earlier and earlier each year. This means that we are consuming more resources than ever before — and at an increasing rate. For example, Earth Overshoot Day occurred in September in 2000, while in 1980 society overshot in November. “It’s a pyramid scheme,” said Mathis Wackernagel, CEO and founder of Global Footprint Network . “It depends on using more and more from the future to pay for the present.” Another daunting thought is that many people throughout the world consume far fewer resources than people in developed countries. Thus, one person in the Unit...