‘World Overshoot Day’, which is calculated regularly every year, has been determined as July 28 this year across the world. It has been announced that Turkey has already started to consume the resources of the next year.
It is determined regularly every year and shows when the ratio between the demand for ecological resources on Earth and the resources produced by our planet will decrease to zero within a year.World Overshoot Day‘ came record early for 2022. Accordingly, the world From 28 July (today) it will actually start depleting the resources we need to consume next year.
World Overshoot Day, calculated by the Global Footprint Network by measuring the resource use of natural resources and people, will mark the end of the year in 2022. 156 days before calculated. In other words, humanity will have used 75% more natural resources this year than ecosystems can replenish. In other words, we will have consumed 1.75 planets, not 1 planet.
Turkey started depleting next year’s resources at an earlier date:
World Overshoot Day included dates specific to countries, as well as the date when resources will start to be borrowed around the world. Accordingly, the date when some countries and Turkey will start to spend their resources next year has been determined as follows:
- Brazil: August 12
- China: February 6
- USA: 13 March
- Turkey: 22 June
According to the data, only 51 countries out of 185 countries in total were determined to have biocapacity reserves. remaining 134 countries are facing resource scarcity. shared. These countries made up 72% of the world’s population.
So, what were the dates set as World Overshoot Day in the past years?
The World Overshoot Day, which has been calculated since 1961, coincided for the first time in 1971 before the end of the year. Since then, World Overshoot Day has been moved to an earlier date almost every year.
- (Green: The current year’s resources are consumed, Red: the next year’s resources are consumed)