Once all renewable resources by 2015.
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The renewable natural resources for the year ended yesterday, in what since 1987 is called Earth Overshoot Day.
The idea of indicating a day, according to consumption caused by human activities, humanity has exhausted than the Earth can produce each year in terms of renewable resources has been developed by the Global Footprint Network, almost thirty years ago, when the Overshoot Day was set to 19 December.
Since then, the date has not done anything but anticipate: in 1990 it had dropped to December 7, 2000 to November 1, and in 2011 to 27 September. We are now to 13 August.
This means that the consumption of renewable resources is always faster: once you reach the deadline, you have to live for the rest of the year affecting the “heritage”.
The overall figure may be then declined in the individual countries: for example in Italy the Overshoot Day has already passed for months, having been last April 5. In practice, according to the Global Footprint Network, “Italy lives four times above its possibilities’ .
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