Humanity has already toasted all available natural resources for 2017
Earth Overshoot Day is measured annually as a way of analyzing how much mankind has already spent on the available natural resources for the 365 period. Since it was invented in the early 1970s, he started arriving each day earlier. In 2017, the limit was reached today, August 2, six days earlier than last year.
For more comparisons, Overhead Day was December 7 in 1990, falling to November 1 in 2000 and August 21, 2010. These calculations are made by the WWF and Global Footprint Network (GFN) groups, which They also evaluate the individual performance of each country. In Brazil, to give you an idea, the limit was reached on July 26, a little earlier than the global average. In other countries, however, the date is much earlier: February 19 in Qatar, March 14 in the United States, May 5 in Japan, and June 23 in China.
Other countries show more conscious use of natural resources. In Cuba, for example, it is estimated that the overload will occur only on December 2. In Colombia on November 26, in Ecuador on November 16 and in Peru on September 23 - we should learn something from our Latin brothers, shouldn't we?
Conscious Consumption
Overload Day analyzes the balance between global natural resource expenditure and the biocapacity of the Earth to regenerate during this period. To lessen the impact on humans, WWF and GFN advise us to consume less meat and avoid waste - food represents 26% of the natural impact.
Carbon emission is still the biggest villain on earth, accounting for 60% of this account. However, we still need to put the amount of water and soil we spend in the balance to try to reduce the indiscriminate use of these resources.
Environmental activists estimate that almost 2 Lands (exactly 1.7) would be needed to meet all the world's demand for natural resources. In previous years, campaigns have tried to raise awareness and make the "credit" to be used by the end of the year not so impactful, but these efforts seem to have no effect - in the meantime, we are spending everything left and right. .
