Earth Overshoot Day, as one group calculates, marks when humans use up more ecological resources than the Earth can regenerate by the end of a year. It has moved up two months over the past 20 years, and July 29 marks the earliest the date has ever landed.
As of July 29, humanity has officially used up more ecological resources this year than the Earth can regenerate by the end of the year. The occasion even has a name: Earth Overshoot Day.The Global Footprint Network, a sustainability organization which calculates the day, says humanity is currently consuming nature 1.75 times faster than the planet can regenerate.
The data comes months after a grim UN reportThe United States is one of the worst culprits. If the entire world's population lived like Americans, the organization said, we would need five Earths to meet our demands. That's compared to countries like France or the United Kingdom, which would need less than three, though that still isn't ideal. And, even though poorer countries aren't the ones overusing resources, they are the ones typically paying the costs.
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