Election Day is World Overshoot Day

World Overshoot Day is the day when when human demand on nature surpasses what nature can renewably supply in a year. It has been falling progressively earlier for the last thirty years.

In 2010, by the Global Footprint Network's calculations, that day happens to fall on August 21.

This is the same day as the Australian federal election.

Political Tweets

"Politics is the art of the possible"

-Otto Von Bismark

This being the case, shouldn't those who would practise the art of the possible first find out what *is* possible?

"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."

- John Kenneth Galbraith

(or, in the current Australian situation: a choice between the unacceptable and the unthinkable)

"Cynicism is obedience"
"Optimism is a political act"

- Alex Steffen

Pessimism is the lot of the flock. The cynical sheepdogs will round you up in due course.

"Pig's arse they will!"

- Moi