How Changing the World’s Food Systems Can Help to Protect the Planet
Aug 7, 2018 11:05 AM ET

Originally published on TheConversation.com
by Elwyn Grainger-Jones, Executive Director, CGIAR
Going into debt with nature is a dangerous thing. When our stocks of water, land and clean air are spent – we don’t have a second planet to borrow from. But that’s exactly the way that Earth is heading. 1 August 2018 marks an annual event, “Earth Overshoot Day”: the day on which the natural resources the planet can regenerate within one year are exhausted. This is the earliest date on which Earth Overshoot Day has ever been reached.
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