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The Earth Enters in Red Numbers
The Earth enters from this Tuesday 4 of June of 2019 on «red numbers» having exhausted its «ecological annual budget» in less than 8 months, according to data of the Global Footprint Network (GFN) that analyzes the evolution of the ecological footprint, that is to say the number of natural resources of the planet that each country consumes. The point at which that limit is exceeded is, likewise, Earth’s Day of Overcapacity.
According to the warning issued by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), the countries of the world ‘eat’ the planet faster and faster, so the day from which it is impossible to regenerate the resources consumed is anticipated every time more: in the year 2000 it was reached on October 1; in 2014 it was exceeded this Tuesday, August 19.
WWF recalls that in 1961, the year in which this organization was founded, humanity consumed two-thirds of the available natural resources and most countries still had a positive ecological balance since their ecological footprint was “much smaller and more sustainable”.
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However, at present consumption levels have “soared” that “we are totally outside sustainable limits” so that…
