Overshoot Day

Starting today, if all humanity consumed like Italians, we would have run out of natural resources produced by the Earth for the whole of 2024, and we would be using those planned for 2025.May 19th is in fact theOvershoot Day Italian, that is, that day in which, by comparing global biocapacity with the ecological footprint of our country, we would virtually run out of all available resources for the current year.The inauguration day of ecological deficit is slightly late compared to last year, in which theOvershoot Day Italian had fallen on May 15th, and it is anyway better than that of the European Union, given that the day of overexploitation has already fallen on May 3rd.In any case, according to the international organization Global Footprint Network, if everyone consumed like Italy, more than 2.5 planets would be needed to meet our annual consumption. THE'Overshoot Day it is a date that changes every year established by Global Footprint Network, an organization that deals wit...