Earth’s 2019 resources ‘budget’ spent by July 29: report 0 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy Agence France-PresseMankind will have used up its allowance of natural resources such as water, soil and clean air for all of 2019 by Monday, a report said. The so-called Earth Overshoot Day has moved up by two months over the past 20 years and this year’s date is the earliest ever, the study by the Global Footprint Network said. This is akin to using 1.75 Earths,” the environmental group, which is headquartered in Oakland, California, said in a statement. We can’t use 1.75 (earths) without destructive consequences,” said Mathis Wackernagel, founder of Global Footprint Network.

Source: Manila Bulletin July 28, 2019 23:37 UTC