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Agence France-Presse

Humanity will have used up its allowance of planetary resources such as water, soil, and clean air for all of 2017 by Wednesday, a report said.
Earth Overshoot Day will arrive on August 2 this year, according to environmental groups WWF and Global Footprint Network. This is a day earlier than in 2016.
It means humanity will be living on “credit” for the rest of the year.
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“By August 2, 2017, we will have used more from nature than our planet can renew in the whole year,” the groups said in a statement.
“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.”
The equivalent of 1.7 planets would be required to produce enough to meet humanity’s needs at current consumption rates.
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Calculated since 1986, the grim milestone has arrived earlier each year.
In 1993, it fell on October 21, in 2003 on September 22, and in 2015 on August 13.
Greenhouse gas emissions from burning coal, oil and gas make up 60 per cent of mankind’s ecological “footprint” on the planet, the groups said.
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But there was some good news. While coming earlier every year, the advance of Earth Overshoot Day has slowed down, the statement said.
Individuals can contribute to stopping, and eventually reversing, the trend by eating less meat, burning less fuel, and cut back on food waste, said the report.


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The fist-sized tree-dwelling tarsier, considered as the world's smallest primate, are in danger of extinction due to increasing deforestation in the Philippines. Photo: EPA

In this November 2016 photo provided by ARC Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, dead staghorn coral killed by bleaching appears drab on the northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Reducing pollution and curbing overfishing won't prevent the severe bleaching that is killing coral at catastrophic rates, according to a study of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. In the end, researchers said, the only way to save the world's coral from heat-induced bleaching is with a war on global warming. (Greg Torda/ARC Center of Excellence via AP)

Smoke billows from chimneys at a chemical factory in Hefei, Anhui province, in this March 10, 2010 file photo. World carbon dioxide emissions will hit a record high this year, driven by China's growth and keeping the world far off track from the deep cuts needed to limit climate change, the Global Carbon Project report by leading research institutes said on September 21, 2014. To match UN-CLIMATECHANGE-CARBON/ REUTERS/Stringer/Files (CHINA - Tags: ENVIRONMENT BUSINESS INDUSTRIAL POLITICS)

FILE - In this Dec. 7, 2012 file photo, Marvin Vega unloads a crate of anchovies from the holding area of a "boliche," the Peruvian term for boats that are used by fishermen who fish with nets, at the port of El Callao, Peru. Not only has overfishing of the Peruvian anchovy, or anchoveta, battered the industry that makes Peru far and away the world’s No. 1 fish-meal exporter, it has also raised alarm about food security in a nation that had long been accustomed to cheap, abundant seafood. Peru’s government ordered radical restrictions on what the country’s 1,200-boat commercial fleet could catch after anchoveta stocks plummeted. But compliance with strict government quotas has been problematic. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)

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Earth Overshoot Day will arrive on August 2 this year, according to environmental groups WWF and Global Footprint Network


Living on credit: humans blow 2017 budget for Earth’s natural resources a day sooner than last year

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}Earth Overshoot Day will arrive on August 2 this year, according to environmental groups WWF and Global Footprint Network

Earth Overshoot Day will arrive on August 2 this year, according to environmental groups WWF and Global Footprint Network