According to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). humanity has used up all biological resources that our planet regenerates during the entire year by July 29, 2021. So this year World Overshoot Day falls on 29th July.
- Humanity currently uses 74 per cent more than what the planet’s ecosystems can regenerate — or 1.7 Earths. From Earth Overshoot Day until the end of the year, humanity operates on ecological deficit spending, says WWF.
- This spending was currently some of the largest since the world entered into ecological overshoot in the early 1970s, according to the National Footprint & Biocapacity Accounts based on UN datasets.
- There was also the 0.5 per cent decrease in ‘global forest biocapacity’ due to a rise in deforestation of the Amazon’s rainforests.
