Since Tuesday, humanity lives on Earth

Only 210 days of 2019 have pbaded and humanity has already consumed all the resources that the Earth is able to regenerate in a year.

From this Tuesday, we live in the context of a loan with an ecological discovery, due in part to the climate crisis, but also to pollution and deforestation.

The worrying thing is that not only have we consumed these resources in the middle of the year, but that since that calculation is done, the date is moving forward.

In fact, over the past 20 years, this date has been advanced by two months.

This year again, the key date was July 29, as in 2018 (initially, it was calculated for August 1), but three days earlier than in 2017 and seven days before in 2016, according to the report. ; NGOs. .

The world's population currently needs for one year the resources of 1.75 terrestrial planets.

The cause: consumerism

The main cause is, above all, the way of life of the richest industrialized countries which deplete the natural resources often found in poor countries.

"We consume and manage the resources as if there was no tomorrow," warned the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).

Several environmental organizations have said they are abandoning the paradigm of economic growth and doing more for the protection of the environment.

The director of the German environmental organization BUND, Hubert Weiger, said: "Summers with overwhelming heat, endangered forests and storm-related exception states will become a new normality. catastrophic because of the growing exploitation of our planet. "

How is it calculated?

The calculation takes into account, for example, the consumption of wood, agricultural land and fishing basins, as well as carbon dioxide emissions.

Limited resources such as oil are not taken into account.

By country

• If the world population lived as in Argentina, it would enter the environmental discovery on June 26, more than a month before the global result. The impact of the Argentineans on nature is greater.
• Brazil is almost average, the environmental discovery would be July 31.
• All countries of South America are better located than Argentina, with the exception of Chile. If everybody was Chilean, the date of the break would be May 19th.
• After this story, Uruguay (November 6) and Ecuador (December 14) are among the friendliest countries on the planet.
• But if we were all Americans, the key date would be March 15th. For China, it would be June 14. The worst of all is Qatar: February 11
• Among Europeans, some examples are Spain, May 28 and Germany, May 3.

Solutions

Delaying the date of five days each year would allow humanity to live according to the capabilities of the planet before 2050.

Solutions are often financially advantageous.

For example, reducing carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use by 50% moves the date to 93 days.

If all existing infrastructures of buildings and industries were equipped with energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies, the date would go back at least 21 days.

The NGO has created a "Solution Map" to join and emulate sustainable initiatives.

And it also has a tool to calculate the ecological footprint of each person.