Humanity will have consumed on August 2, all of the resources that the planet can renew in one year and will therefore live "on credit" until December 31, calculated the NGO Global Footprint Network, noting that this moment arises from earlier and earlier each year.
Wednesday August 2 marks for Earth the “overshoot day”: “from this date, humanity will have consumed all the resources that the planet can renew in a year”, write Global Footprint and WWF in a joint statement.
For its calculations, Global Footprint takes into account the carbon footprint, the resources consumed for fishing, livestock, crops, construction and the use of water.
In 2016, the "overshoot day" occurred on August 3. Even if the rate of progression has slowed down a little for six years, this symbolic date "continues inexorably to advance: this day went from the end of September in 1997 to August 2 this year", note the NGOs.
"To meet our needs, we need the equivalent of 1,7 planets today," they said.
“The cost of this overconsumption is already visible: water shortages, desertification, soil erosion, fall in agricultural productivity and fish stocks, deforestation, disappearance of species.
Living on credit can only be temporary because nature is not a deposit from which we can draw indefinitely ”, underline the WWF and Global Footprint._AF
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