Definition

When human demand on natural resources exceeds regeneration ability.

Further reading
Earth Overshoot Day - Global Footprint Network [website]
Tracking the ecological overshoot of the human economy (Wackernagel et al., 2002) [journal article]
Related

Earth Overshoot Day; ecological debt; global ecological debt; global ecological overshoot; global overshoot; overconsumption; world biocapacity; world ecological footprint

See also
Anthropocene
Deforestation
Planetary boundaries
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Drafted by
Chris Graham
Reviewed by
TBC