This year the Earth Overshoot Day, the day we used this year’s natural resources that can be produced in a sustainable way, fell on 2 August. That is, five months before the end of the year! Unsurprisingly, since the 1970s, when humanity first began over-consuming, this date is the earliest of all the calculations so far.
It is also interesting to see when the Overshoot Day would be if everyone in the world lived on the average Hungarian footprint: sooner or later than the global day? Unfortunately, in Hungary we have a footprint that is somewhat larger than the world average; so this day fell on 10 July this year.