Environmental Alert: humanity has already spent the planet's natural resources for the year 2019

Humanity lives on credit from Monday: it has already consumed all the natural resources offered by the planet, according to a calculation made by the Global Footprint Network organization.

L & # 39; call Earth overcapacity day, calculated since 1986, arrives like this two months earlier than 20 years ago and each year is ahead of schedule. In 1993, this occurred on October 21; in 2003, the 22nd of September; and in 2017, August 2nd.

"The fact that the day of the overcapacity of the Earth is July 29 This means that humanity is currently using ecological resources 1.75 times faster "than the ability of ecosystems to regenerate," said the NGO, warning: "We are spending the natural capital of our planet while reducing its ability to future regeneration ".

"The cost of this global ecological overload is becoming increasingly evident with the deforestation, soil erosion, loss of biodiversity and increased carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere. This leads to climate change and more extreme weather events, "said the California organization.

The consumption patterns They have huge differences between countries. Last year, "Qatar has reached its day of overcapacity after only 42 days, while Indonesia has used all the resources for the year after 342," said WWF, badociated with Global Footprint network.

"If the whole world lived like the French, it would take 2.7 planets" and if everyone adopted the American mode of consumption, it would take five lands.

Chile's environment minister, Carolina Schmidt, who will chair the COP25 Climate Summit expected in Santiago in December, the increase in CO2 emissions is one of the main causes of the coming date every year. "The importance of decisive action is becoming more obvious," he said.

According to the WWF, "by reducing CO2 emissions by 50%, we could gain 93 days a year, that is, postpone the Earth's overcapacity day to October."

The ecological footprint of each individual can be calculated at http://www.footprintcalculator.org