![]() ![]() ![]() Therefore, understanding biocapacity’s relevance empowers us to design cities and economies with significantly higher chances of long-term success (one-planet prosperity), while ignoring it will keep us on the business-as-usual path. Humanity’s poor stewardship of biocapacity has made it the most materially limiting factor for the human enterprise. Biocapacity and how we manage it is increasingly determining humanity’s future as we face the daunting challenges of climate change and resource constraints. Like gravity, it is a force of nature that can be observed and measured. This primary productivity of nature is the source for all life, including human life.Īlthough the term was coined in the 1990s, biocapacity is not a recent invention or a method. ![]() It is an effort to celebrate biocapacity - our planet’s biological power to regenerate life. Earth Overshoot Day is not just one special day of the year. ![]()
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