On July 30, 2026, humanity spent its ecological budget for the year. Every fish caught, tree cut, and ton of carbon emitted after that date was borrowed against the future. We are now running more than five months of the year on credit. I just learned about this. It’s called “Earth Overshoot Day.” It sounds both frightening and a bit hard to believe. It can feel like an abstract statistic, the kind of thing that belongs in a policy report rather than at the kitchen table. But