#PODCAST Earth Overshoot Day 2024: Why South Africans are now living on borrowed ecological resources #sabcnews

By Newsbreak Producer Taliesha Naidoo - South Africans are living on borrowed ecological resources. That's according to Jako Volschenk, Associate Professor in Strategy and Sustainability at Stellenbosch Business School. Volschenk made the comments on the backdrop of Earth Overshoot Day, which was commemorated on the 20th of June. It is the day when our consumption of ecological resources exceeds the planet's capacity to regenerate them for that year. Volschenk says Earth Overshoot Day has been a stark wake-up call for South Africans that everything we consume from today onwards, is taken from the future...