A certain amount of budget is planned every year in regards to the resource quantity that must be spent or saved, now, the report on Earth’s resource budget plan of 2017 ends on 2nd August of this year, tomorrow, and we have to accomplish the rest of the allowances of planetary resources such as water, soil, and clean air for all.

According to environmental groups WWF and Global Footprint Network, the Earth Overshoot Day will arrive on 2 August this year. This is a day earlier to that of last year.

Groups in a statement said, “By 2 August 2017, we will have used more from nature than our planet can renew in the whole year. This means that in seven months, we emitted more carbon than the oceans and forests can absorb in a year, we caught more fish, felled more trees, harvested more, and consumed more water than the Earth was able to produce in the same period.”

 

Sources claim that the equivalent of 1.7 planets would be required to produce enough to meet humanity’s needs at current consumption rates. Earth Overshoot Day has been calculated every year since 1986, with the grim milestone arriving earlier with every following year.

Back in 1993, it fell on 21 October, in 2003 on 22 September, and in 2015 on 13 August. The two groups said greenhouse gas emissions caused by burning coal, oil and gas make up 60% of mankind’s ecological “footprint” on the planet. While the milestone has tended to come earlier every year, the rate of its advance has slowed down, read the statement.

It also added that the individuals can contribute to stopping, and eventually reverse, the trend by eating less meat, burning less fuel, and cut back on food waste and decomposable materials.

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