Stuffing ourselves on Black Friday
Friday, November 25, 2011 - 03:02
in Astronomy & Space
On the biggest shopping day of the year, think for a moment about the demands our consumption makes on the planet's resources and ask yourself: Does our family need more stuff?Today is Black Friday, when holiday shopping hordes descend on malls across the country, and retailers hope to turn a profit as their accounting books transition from red ink to black. This year, Black Friday comes two months after Global Overshoot Day, when our planet's accounts — the ones that measure human demand on the planet's services that support our economies — transitioned the other direction, from black to red.