OVERSHOT! is an interactive online storytelling generator that imagines the future based on your lifestyle choices. By answering a few simple questions, we generate a personalized front page of a future newspaper—showing what the world in 2040 would look like if everyone lived like you.
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Earth Overshoot Day marks the point each year when humanity's resource consumption surpasses the Earth's ability to regenerate those resources. In this project, we’ve created a website that calculates your personal Earth Overshoot Day based on your choices and displays the outcome as a futuristic newspaper headline.
This project isn’t grounded in scientific prediction but aims to humorously highlight how individual decisions and consumption patterns impact global issues like climate change, energy consumption, and mass production. By interacting with the newspaper’s fictional articles and images, users can access real-world background information on these critical problems.
Depending on your answers, your personal Overshot Day places you in one of three futures: a flooded ‘Super Apocalypse’ (early year), an ‘Uncomfy Normal’ (May-August), where a global energy war takes center stage, or a peaceful ‘Hippietopia’—a harmonious world where peace reigns, politicians practice yoga, and cars are a thing of the past. But beware—what seems like a sustainable paradise may still hide new challenges waiting to unfold.
In collaboration with Natalia Cabrera and Anna Ridler
Calculate your own Overshot Day!