In 2019, Earth Overshoot Day on 29 July was the earliest in history. It meant that in 7 months humankind had already used all the natural resources our planet could renew in 2019 according to the Global Footprint Network, a group that uses an array of mostly United Nations data to calculate what it calls Earth Overshoot Day. This is the day when information indicates that humanity overshoots the planet’s ability to recover from what resources we consume within each year—like regrow the trees we cut down, absorb the carbon dioxide we emit, and replenish the seas with the fish we harvest, to name a few. At this rate, it would take 1.75 Earths to sustainably meet the current demands of humanity, according to the available data.
Overshoot day and national lifestyle - look who is on the right side of the diagram |
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