Humanity will have burned through all the natural resources that the planet can replenish for 2020 by Saturday, according to researchers who said ...
The report said humanity is using 60 per cent more resources than can be renewed - the equivalent of 1.6 planets. LONDON: Humanity will have burned through all the natural resources that the planet can replenish for 2020 by Saturday , according to researchers who said the grim milestone is slightly later than last year after the pandemic slowed runaway overconsumption.
Comparing that with what is sustainably available, they estimate that humanity is using 60 per cent more than can be renewed - the equivalent of 1.6 planets. Researchers said that the pandemic had caused huge disruption to global agricultural systems and markets, but concluded that ultimately there was little change to the scale of humanity's food footprint.Global Footprint Network has said that efforts to control the pandemic show that changing consumption habits in a short time frame is possible, adding that the overshoot date is"an unprecedented opportunity to reflect on the future we want".
In a report earlier this month, an international team of researchers said that global emissions from the burning of coal, oil and gas could fall up to eight per cent in 2020 due to unprecedented measures to control the pandemic.
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