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<\/p>\nEarth will have used up its allowance of planetary resources such as water, soil, and clean air for all of 2017 by tomorrow, a new report from environmental groups has said.<\/p>\n
\u2018Earth Overshoot Day\u2019 will arrive on 2 August this year, according to environmental groups WWF and Global Footprint Network.<\/p>\n
This is a day earlier than in 2016.<\/p>\n
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“By 2 August 2017, we will have used more from nature than our planet can renew in the whole year,” the groups said in a statement.<\/p>\n
It added: “This means that in seven months, we emitted more carbon than the oceans and forests can absorb in a year”<\/p>\n
“We caught more fish, felled more trees, harvested more, and consumed more water than the Earth was able to produce in the same period.”<\/p>\n
The report claims that the equivalent of 1.7 planets would be required to produce enough to meet humanity’s needs at current consumption rates.<\/p>\n
Earth Overshoot Day has been calculated every year since 1986, with the grim milestone arriving earlier each year.<\/p>\n
In 1993, it fell on 21 October, in 2003 it arrived on 22 September, and in 2015 it was on 13 August.<\/p>\n
The two groups said greenhouse gas emissions caused from burning coal, oil and gas make up 60% of mankind’s ecological “footprint” on the planet.<\/p>\n
While the milestone has tended to come earlier every year, the rate of its advance has slowed down, said the statement.<\/p>\n
The report says individuals can contribute to stopping, and eventually reversing, the trend by eating less meat, burning less fuel, and cut back on food waste.<\/p>\n
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