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This is reported by the Global Footprint Network (GFN) report, which measures supply and demand for natural resources and ecological services for humankind. The turning point of the year is a few days earlier – last year 's overheating day came down on August 2nd, reports the portal 20minutes.fr. The whole process has accelerated due to excessive consumption and waste, explained Valérie Gramond of WWF, a GFN partner organization.
In his statement, Gramond pointed out, for example, that according to surveys, only one-third of food ends in garbage cans. She also warned that "The possibility of regeneration of the planet is undermined" and, for example, she said the situation with fish stocks. According to Gramond, humanity would need 1.7 Earth planets to meet its needs
The ecological debt situation varies greatly depending on the landscape, said WWF's Pierre Cannet. Small countries with a small population like Qatar and Luxembourg leave an extremely strong ecological footprint, explained Cannet. He warned that if all of humanity was alive as it was, the day of the breakthrough would have reached humanity on the 9th or 19th of February. According to the GFN, the United States live on ecological debt since March 14, Germany since May 1, France since May 5 and Britain since May 7. In countries like Morocco or Vietnam, this date falls on December 16th and 21st.
Le Cannet believes that the latest analysis of human ecological debt demonstrates the need to move from alarm to action . To reverse the current unfavorable trend, GFN is possible through various measures. Among them are: how cities use and prefer so-called "green energy", the fight against waste and excessive consumption of meat, or limitation of demographic expansion.The Institute uses data from the 39 UN from thousands of human activities, including fishing, forestry, transportation and energy.
The day of this year's breakthrough came early in the early 1970s when it The first time was in 1970 when it fell on December 29th – Earth had a resource deficit for only two days.In the coming years, it returned to earlier dates – December 19 (1987), December 7 (1990), November 21 (1995), November 1 (2000), October 20 (2005), October 26, September 23, 2008, September 25, 2009, August 21, 2010, August 27, 2011, 22 August 2012, August 20, 2014, August 19, 2014 13, August 2015, August 8, 2016 and August 2, 2017.
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