File talk:Earth Overshoot Day graph.svg

Suggestions

This excellent graphic would be still more effective with four changes:

1. Change order so the one-earth verticle line is at left and 10 earths line is at the right;

2. Label the one-earth line

3. Change dates to ascending order so that 2020 is at the top; and

4. Extend the starting date at least to a one-earth line, perhaps 1975, or preferably to a much earlier point, such as a half-earth or quarter-earth line.

The result would show a line leaping up, comparable to the hockey-stick graph of global temperatures, and so make more clear that human impact is increasing (line rising from left to right) unsustainably.

Thanks for the suggestions. I've redrawn the chart using data from http://overshootday.org/newsroom/past-earth-overshoot-days so that months run down the chart (as in calendars) while number of Earths run up (as in conventional graphs). Cheers, cmɢʟee ⋅τaʟκ 02:26, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

@Cmglee: You put a link to File:Horizon distance graphs.svg in the file description. Is it intentional? If so, I think readers would appreciate an explanation of the connection between the two SVGs. Deryck Chan (留言) 08:20, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

@Deryck Chan: Yes, I copied the simplified globe icon from that file. Cheers, cmɢʟee ⋅τaʟκ 08:45, 29 June 2023 (UTC)