Earth overload day

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The Erdüberlastungstag ( English Earth Overshoot Day , increasingly rarely, "Ecological Debt Day", "Overshoot day", "Weltüberlastungstag" or "Ökoschuldentag") is an annual campaign of the organization Global Footprint Network , the day of the current year, where the human demand according to renewable raw materials, the supply and the capacity of the earth to reproduce these resources will exceed this year. The earth overload day is an action day .

The respective date is calculated by putting the global ecological footprint (the human demand for biological resources within the respective year) in relation to the total global biocapacity (the amount of worldwide regeneration of biological resources within the same year); analogously, the respective annual resource consumption is extrapolated to a corresponding number of soils. The aim of the campaign is to make people aware of the finiteness and finiteness of natural resources and the earth and to show how the date can be pushed into the future.

Data and concept

From an economic perspective, from the earth overload day onwards, mankind is in a resource deficit because it has already used up its entire annual resource income and therefore has to borrow "money from the bank" - that is, the earth. This condition is called "overshoot".

The concept of Earth Congestion Day was originally developed by Andrew Simms , a member of the British think tank New Economics Foundation . The Global Footprint Network measures human demand for and global supply of natural resources and ecological services . Global Footprint Network notes that now all renewable resources and CO 2 emissions for a whole year have been used up after just seven months . The organization uses economics terms in the hope of appealing not just to academics but to a wider audience.

In 2019, the day was July 29th. The trend over the past 25 years shows a clear move forward to an earlier date. In 2003 the day was calculated for September 22nd, in 1993 for October 21st. B. comes due to weather-related different emissions .

year Overload day Consumption in earth units
1961 0.73 (This year was the global annual resource -
utilization as reserves left)
...
1970 December 29th 1.01 (Since then the annual consumption has exceeded
the globally available resources)
1971 20th of December 1.03
1972 10th of December 1.06
1973 November 26th 1.10
1974 November 27th 1.10
1975 30th of November 1.09
1976 November 16 1.14
1977 November 11th 1.16
1978 November 7th 1.17
1979 October 29th 1.21
1980 November 4th 1.18
1981 November 11th 1.16
1982 15th of November 1.14
1983 14th November 1.15
1984 November 6th 1.18
1985 November 4th 1.19
1986 30th of October 1.20
1987 23rd October 1.23
1988 15th October 1.27
1989 October 11th 1.29
1990 October 11th 1.29
1991 October 10th 1.29
1992 October 12th 1.28
1993 October 12th 1.28
1994 October 10th 1.29
1995 4th of October 1.32
1996 October 2nd 1.33
1997 September 29th 1.34
1998 September 29th 1.34
1999 September 29th 1.34
2000 September 23rd 1.38
2001 September 22 1.38
2002 September 19th 1.39
2003 the 9th of September 1.45
2004 September 1 1.49
2005 August 25 1.54
2006 August 19th 1.58
2007 August 14th 1.62
2008 August 14th 1.62
2009 18th of August 1.59
2010 August 7th 1.67
2011 4th of August 1.69
2012 4th of August 1.69
2013 3rd August 1.70
2014 4th of August 1.69
2015 5th of August 1.68
2016 5th of August 1.68
2017 August 1st 1.71
2018 29th of July 1.74
2019 29th of July 1.74
2020 August 22nd 1.56
2021 29th of July

National differences

Qatar and Luxembourg

Qatar and Luxembourg occupied the top positions worldwide in 2020. Qatar already used up its resources for this year on February 11th. In Luxembourg, the last earth congestion day fell on February 19, 2019 and February 16, 2020.

United States

In the United States of America , on March 14, the resources for 2021 were exhausted. That is, by that date, nature's annual needs have exceeded what the United States' ecosystem can regenerate all year round.

European Union

If all the inhabitants of the world lived as they do in the European Union , global resources would have been used up by May 10th in 2019.

Germany

In 2017, April 24th was calculated as the date for Germany's resource depletion; his way of life claims three earths. For 2018, May 2nd was named here, due to weather-related fluctuations a little later than 2017. Deficits are seen as a result of the lack of ecological change with regard to an energy transition and the transport turnaround in mobility as well as in the areas of agriculture and climate policy with high CO 2 emissions; land use due to the externalized cultivation of feed in South America for meat production contributes to this; the industrialized cultivation - in contrast to traditional forms of agriculture  - together with sealing of the soil favor floods. The Federal Republic of Germany overflows the global ecological resources on the national earth congestion day, however, a little later than the United States, which extrapolated to the earth's population would claim five planets. In 2019, earth overload day for Germany fell on May 3, 2021 on May 5.

Austria

For Austria, April 9 was determined to be the earth overload day in 2019. In 2021 it fell on April 7th.

Switzerland

In 2018 and 2019, May 7 was calculated as the date for resource depletion in Switzerland; their way of life claims three earths. In 2020, Earth Congestion Day in Switzerland fell on May 8th, and in 2021 on May 11th.

Background: Development of human resource consumption

People have always used natural resources to build cities and roads, to extract food or to manufacture other products. In the mid-1970s, according to the Global Footprint Network, humanity exceeded a critical limit: the demand for natural resources exceeded the global capacity to reproduce and offer new resources. The human demand for renewable ecological resources and services corresponds to the capacity of an earth and a half. With constant development, resources on two planets would be used annually until 2050. Corresponding indicators of this phenomenon include: greenhouse effects that are generated faster than they are absorbed and degraded by forests and oceans, deforestation of forests, decline in biodiversity , overfishing .

2020: Delay due to corona lockdowns

Due to global mass quarantines ("lockdown") to combat and contain the COVID-19 pandemic from February 2020 and the associated economic, air traffic, tourism, etc. (see also economic crisis 2020 ), World Exhaustion Day 2020 was postponed from July 29th in The year before on August 22nd. The aim of the lockdown to combat and contain the COVID-19 pandemic was to restrict contacts in order to reduce the spread of the virus. Shutting down factories, canceling trips, cutting down on consumption, and more all helped reduce the consumption of resources.

judgement

The problematization of the global consumption of resources is welcomed by other environmental organizations: "Mankind takes more from the earth than it can annually renew in terms of natural resources and absorb greenhouse gases", according to the environmental organizations WWF , GLOBAL 2000 and Greenpeace .

See also

Web links

Commons : Earth Congestion Day  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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