July 29, 2019 marks Earth Overshoot Day for 2019. From now on, the world consums more ressources than the earth can reproduce within a year. It's really shocking we've reached this point so early. In most western countries, the date would even be earlier.
Earth Overshoot Day 2019: When will humanity use up the planet's allowance of natural resources for the year?
Earth Overshoot Day 2019 is earlier than it ever has been before.
By Monday, humans will have exhausted the allowance of the planet's natural resources for the entire year.
July 29 marks Earth Overshoot Day (EOD), and for the rest of 2019 all the energy humanity uses is unsustainable in the long term.
It is the earliest that EOD has ever fallen, and means humans are using nature 1.75 times faster than Earth's ecosystems can regenerate.
This year, EOD falls on Monday, July 29 - earlier than ever before.
According to international sustainability organisation Global Footprint Network EOD has moved up two months over the past 20 years.
Falling on July 29 means humanity is currently using nature 1.75 times faster than our planet's ecosystems can regenerate. It means humans currently consume 1.75 Earths every year.
Last year EOD fell on August 1 while the year before that it was on August 3. It has been calculated that by 1973, when human consumption began outstripping what the planet could produce, EOD fell in early December.
Before the 1970s, the Earth was able to renew all of its resources spent by humans every year.
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