"Overshoot Day": World Has Exhausted Natural Resources for 2025

"This shows: Our current economic and consumption behavior is overloading the Earth and endangering our future - and it is still increasing," said the conservation organization WWF about the "Overshoot Day".

Austria had already reached "Overshoot Day" on March 29

July 24 marks the point at which people are living on credit and at the expense of future generations, according to the WWF. According to the German Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation (BUND), it is the day from which people claim more arable and pasture land, fishing grounds, and forests for the rest of the year than are mathematically available. At the same time, far more CO2 is emitted than forests and oceans can absorb.

The experts also calculate the respective exhaustion day for each country: Austria had already exhausted its natural resources this year on March 29 and was once again at the top of the resource consumption ranking.

"Overshoot Day": Environmental organizations demand a change of course

The environmental organizations WWF Austria and Global 2000 called for a change of course in dealing with planetary resources. "We must take countermeasures now and handle our planet sustainably. Only in this way will future generations have a livable future," said Joschka Brangs, biodiversity spokesperson for WWF Austria. Specifically, the WWF urged, among other things, an energy-saving initiative, a soil protection contract to preserve valuable ecosystems, and an ambitious implementation of the EU's renaturation law.

(APA/Red)

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