Sorry, but since we ended all the planet’s resources for this year – BBC World

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Image caption We emit more carbon dioxide than the planet can be cleaned.

From Tuesday, all the carbon dioxide we produce, fish that consume or trees that talemos, the atmosphere, oceans and forests can not be replaced.

in other words, we are consuming and polluting faster than nature can recreate and clean in a year.

And this Monday we finished all the resources of the Earth for this year, which ever comes earlier and is known as the Day Excess Earth .

This time he fell on August 8; a decade ago was in late September .

According to experts, if globally continue to consume at the rate we do now, need 1.6 Earths to meet our demands .

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Image caption Now we just all fish that nature can replenish in a year.

The study, which annually prepares the organization Global Footprint Network, calculates the amount of land and ocean required to provide the resources required by a person, either food, shelter or transportation, and takes into account the emissions of carbon dioxide that entails .

the result is what is known as the “ecological footprint” that each of us left day to day.

For example, if we divide it by countries, Luxembourg is the country that spends resources faster, because according to the study, if everyone were like them, every year need the equivalent of 9.1 planets .

If we were like Australia, would be 5.4; and in the case of the United States 4.8.

• Europe 2.8

• Middle East 1.7

• Latin America 1.6

• Asia 1.3

And if we go to Latin America, the region needs 1.6 planets to meet with their needs.

However, if all consu miéramos at the same pace as the small island of Aruba, then the world would need 6.9 Earths .

In the Latin American continent, Chile is the most demand has natural resources . If we all consume like them, then we would need 2.5 planets.

Paraguay follows closely with 2.4 planets.

• Chile 2.5

• Paraguay 2.4

• Venezuela 2.1

• Argentina 1.8

to reach these figures, the organization uses data that the United Nations has thousands of economic sectors such as fishing, transport, forest management and energy production and how this translates into carbon emissions.

“Today carbon emissions account for 60% of the demand of humanity to nature” is the statement of the organization.

This means that we have reached a point where we are emitting more CO2 into the atmosphere than forests and oceans can reabsorb.