On Saturday (21) the inhabitants of Earth have exhausted all the resources that the planet offers within a year, rising living from the credits of the next year, according to calculations made by the NGO Global Footprint Network (GFN).
According to the study, "it took nine months to exhaust the total of the year", in ecological terms.
The NSG periodically calculates the day that will exhaust the natural resources that the planet is able to provide for one year, consumed by humanity, including the supply of fresh water and raw materials.
For this year, the NGO provided the Earth Overshoot Day, or Day of the excess, on Saturday 21, meaning that in less than nine months which would deplete the ecological budget year, said the president of GFN, Mathis Wackernagel.
Last year, according to Mathis, the limit was reached on September 25, but is not that the waste has been different.
- This year we reviewed our own data - added Mathis. -We found that, until then, we had overestimated the productivity of forests and grasslands: exaggerate the earth's capacity to regenerate and absorb our excesses.
The NSG calculation is based on an equation of the provision of services and resources for nature and compares human consumption, and waste - pollution emissions such as CO ².
"In 1980, our carbon footprint was equivalent to the size of Earth. Today is 50% more, "insists the NGO.
- If you spend your annual budget in nine months, probably should be very worried. The situation is no less serious when it comes to our ecological budget - Mathis added yet. - Climate change, biodiversity loss, deforestation, lack of water and food are signs that we can not continue to consume our credit.
To reverse the trend, it is necessary that "the world's population begins to decrease consumption"
The NSG periodically calculates the day that will exhaust the natural resources that the planet is able to provide for one year, consumed by humanity, including the supply of fresh water and raw materials.
For this year, the NGO provided the Earth Overshoot Day, or Day of the excess, on Saturday 21, meaning that in less than nine months which would deplete the ecological budget year, said the president of GFN, Mathis Wackernagel.
Last year, according to Mathis, the limit was reached on September 25, but is not that the waste has been different.- This year we reviewed our own data - added Mathis. -We found that, until then, we had overestimated the productivity of forests and grasslands: exaggerate the earth's capacity to regenerate and absorb our excesses.
The NSG calculation is based on an equation of the provision of services and resources for nature and compares human consumption, and waste - pollution emissions such as CO ².
"In 1980, our carbon footprint was equivalent to the size of Earth. Today is 50% more, "insists the NGO.
- If you spend your annual budget in nine months, probably should be very worried. The situation is no less serious when it comes to our ecological budget - Mathis added yet. - Climate change, biodiversity loss, deforestation, lack of water and food are signs that we can not continue to consume our credit.
To reverse the trend, it is necessary that "the world's population begins to decrease consumption"
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