Dr. Katherine Grocott, Australia

Climate Change is the largest threat to human survival in the Here and Now. Carefully calculated using scientific and environmental methods, Overshoot Days clearly demonstrates that many countries, mostly in the West, use up their yearly allocation in far less time. The worst during 2022, Qatar, only took 41 days. For 2021, the Earth’s Overshoot Day was the 29th July, taking 210 days to use up 365 days’ worth of planetary resources, meaning we need 1.7 planets to sustain this usage.