Environment 2023/08/02 Earth Overshoot Day – Considering Resource Consumption in Japan “Earth Overshoot Day” is the date on the calendar when human consumption exceeds the Earth’s annual resource reproduction. It is said that it takes 1.7 Earths worth of resources to live the way we do today, and it is clear that we are living in a situation where we are borrowing the Earth’s resources in advance. Furthermore, data has also been published on the life of each country in the case of the world as a whole. Let look at Japan.