Earth Overshoot Day shows we must take our boot off nature’s neck

Opinion: Here’s a riddle for you: which special day should we celebrate only when it disappears?
It would be cause for celebration on a grand scale if we stopped destroying the biosphere’s capacity to continue providing for our survival. Since 1970, humanity started consuming more of the Earth’s resources than nature can regenerate within the same time frame. Earth Overshoot Day is that date on the calendar when we have consumed a whole year of nature’s regenerative capacity.