Britain now ‘eating the planet’
14/4/2006 BBC A study by the New Economics Foundation (Nef) and the Open University says 16 April is the day when the nation goes into ”ecological debt” this year. It warns if annual global consumption levels matched the UK’s, it would take 3.1 Earths to meet the demand. In 1961, the symbolic “ecological debt day” was 9 July; in 1981, it had shifted forward two months to 14 May. The authors of the UK Interdependence Report hope to highlight the need to curb rising consumption levels.