(OAKLAND, CA, USA) - Humanity took less than nine months to stay within the budget of this year, according to the calculations of the Global Footprint Network (GFN), a ' environmental research organization based in California.
The Global Footprint Network calculates the offer of the kind in the form of "biological capacity" or the amount of resources that regenerates the planet every year and compares human demand that we use to produce that amount with all the resources necessary for our life and to absorb our greenhouse CO2. The data reveal that the NSG, to August 21, 2010, humanity has exhausted all resources and ecological services, the elimination of the CO2 production of raw materials for food, that nature can provide this year (the interests of capital nature).
From that date until the end of the year, meet our demands giving fund ecological resources (capital) and accumulating greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
" If a person spends his entire annual salary in nine months, which would have to be very concerned " says Mathis Wackernagel Chairman of the NSG. "The situation is no less alarming when anything happens to our ecological budget. Climate change, biodiversity loss, deforestation, lack of food and water - are all clear signs that we can not longer finance our consumption with the claim. Nature is going to "take away our confidence." More information about http://www.footprintnetwork.org/earthovershootday
What is Overshoot? For the most part of human history, mankind has lived with the "interests" of natural capital - consuming resources and producing CO2 at a rate lower than what the planet was able to regenerate and absorb each year. For nearly three decades now, we have passed the critical threshold, and the rate of human demand for ecological services began to exceed the rate at which nature can provide to regenerate. This difference between demand and supply, known as "ecological overload" (Ecological Overshoot) has grown steadily each year. Now the Earth, with the remaining natural capital, it takes one year and six months to rebuild the resources that mankind uses in one year. Worrying
CO2 to balance the budget. Climate change is perhaps the most important sign of our irresponsible environmental behavior. The Ecological Footprint linked to carbon (as it is calculated by the NSG, is the amount of surface land and sea is needed to absorb the CO2 that we emit) is the biggest part of the Ecological Footprint and human by far the growing faster. Our ecological footprint of CO2 more than doubled from 1970 to now. At that time, has grown at a rate three times wider than the fastest growing component and which is the territory built. Le emissioni di CO2 allo stato attuale costituiscono più della metà della domanda umana di natura. Stiamo emettendo molta più CO2 di quella che gli ecosistemi naturali possono assorbire; questo sta facendo aumentare la CO2 nell’atmosfera e sta contribuendo al cambiamento climatico.
Come viene calcolato l’Earth Overshoot day e perchè è così in anticipo rispetto al 2009? Ogni anno, il Global Footprint Network calcola l’Impronta Ecologica dell’umanità (ovvero la sua necessità di campi, pascoli, foreste, aree di pesca e spazio per infrastrutture e per assorbire CO2), e la confronta con la biocapacità globale (ovvero la capacità degli ecosistemi appena citati di produrre risorse e assorbire waste). The Earth Overshoot Day is a concept conceived by the English "nef" New Economic Foundation, and is calculated based on the data of 2007 (the most recent year in which data are available), the projections based on historical rates of growth population and consumption, and historical trends of world GDP and demand for resources.
Last year, Earth Overshoot Day fell September 25, 2009. This year it is estimated with an advance of more than a month. This is not due to a sudden change in the human demand, but rather an improvement in the calculation methodology that allows the NSG to assess more accurately l’estensione dell’Overshoot. (Per esempio, i nostri dati più aggiornati mostrano che il pianeta ha una minor biocapacità rispetto a quanto si stimava precedentemente, soprattutto nel settore dei terreni da pascolo).
“Pensiamo comunque che in nostri calcoli sono - se mai - sottostimati” dice Mathis Wackernagel. “Sappiamo che viviamo ben al di là dei mezzi che il nostro unico pianeta ci mette a disposizione. La buona notizia è che molta della tecnologia che abbiamo per cominciare a far fronte questo problema è disponibile ed è “open source” come la progettazione urbana compatta, l’abitare in modo energeticamente efficiente, la riforma per le tasse ecologiche, la rimozione dei sussidi perverse, family planning and safe for everyone, bicycles, diets low in meat, the analysis of the life cycle. "
To calculate your personal ecological footprint and find out what you can do go to www.footprintnetwork.org / calculator . About the Global Footprint
The Global Footprint Network calculates the offer of the kind in the form of "biological capacity" or the amount of resources that regenerates the planet every year and compares human demand that we use to produce that amount with all the resources necessary for our life and to absorb our greenhouse CO2. The data reveal that the NSG, to August 21, 2010, humanity has exhausted all resources and ecological services, the elimination of the CO2 production of raw materials for food, that nature can provide this year (the interests of capital nature).
From that date until the end of the year, meet our demands giving fund ecological resources (capital) and accumulating greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
" If a person spends his entire annual salary in nine months, which would have to be very concerned " says Mathis Wackernagel Chairman of the NSG. "The situation is no less alarming when anything happens to our ecological budget. Climate change, biodiversity loss, deforestation, lack of food and water - are all clear signs that we can not longer finance our consumption with the claim. Nature is going to "take away our confidence." More information about http://www.footprintnetwork.org/earthovershootday
What is Overshoot? For the most part of human history, mankind has lived with the "interests" of natural capital - consuming resources and producing CO2 at a rate lower than what the planet was able to regenerate and absorb each year. For nearly three decades now, we have passed the critical threshold, and the rate of human demand for ecological services began to exceed the rate at which nature can provide to regenerate. This difference between demand and supply, known as "ecological overload" (Ecological Overshoot) has grown steadily each year. Now the Earth, with the remaining natural capital, it takes one year and six months to rebuild the resources that mankind uses in one year. Worrying
CO2 to balance the budget. Climate change is perhaps the most important sign of our irresponsible environmental behavior. The Ecological Footprint linked to carbon (as it is calculated by the NSG, is the amount of surface land and sea is needed to absorb the CO2 that we emit) is the biggest part of the Ecological Footprint and human by far the growing faster. Our ecological footprint of CO2 more than doubled from 1970 to now. At that time, has grown at a rate three times wider than the fastest growing component and which is the territory built. Le emissioni di CO2 allo stato attuale costituiscono più della metà della domanda umana di natura. Stiamo emettendo molta più CO2 di quella che gli ecosistemi naturali possono assorbire; questo sta facendo aumentare la CO2 nell’atmosfera e sta contribuendo al cambiamento climatico.
Come viene calcolato l’Earth Overshoot day e perchè è così in anticipo rispetto al 2009? Ogni anno, il Global Footprint Network calcola l’Impronta Ecologica dell’umanità (ovvero la sua necessità di campi, pascoli, foreste, aree di pesca e spazio per infrastrutture e per assorbire CO2), e la confronta con la biocapacità globale (ovvero la capacità degli ecosistemi appena citati di produrre risorse e assorbire waste). The Earth Overshoot Day is a concept conceived by the English "nef" New Economic Foundation, and is calculated based on the data of 2007 (the most recent year in which data are available), the projections based on historical rates of growth population and consumption, and historical trends of world GDP and demand for resources.
Last year, Earth Overshoot Day fell September 25, 2009. This year it is estimated with an advance of more than a month. This is not due to a sudden change in the human demand, but rather an improvement in the calculation methodology that allows the NSG to assess more accurately l’estensione dell’Overshoot. (Per esempio, i nostri dati più aggiornati mostrano che il pianeta ha una minor biocapacità rispetto a quanto si stimava precedentemente, soprattutto nel settore dei terreni da pascolo).
“Pensiamo comunque che in nostri calcoli sono - se mai - sottostimati” dice Mathis Wackernagel. “Sappiamo che viviamo ben al di là dei mezzi che il nostro unico pianeta ci mette a disposizione. La buona notizia è che molta della tecnologia che abbiamo per cominciare a far fronte questo problema è disponibile ed è “open source” come la progettazione urbana compatta, l’abitare in modo energeticamente efficiente, la riforma per le tasse ecologiche, la rimozione dei sussidi perverse, family planning and safe for everyone, bicycles, diets low in meat, the analysis of the life cycle. "
To calculate your personal ecological footprint and find out what you can do go to www.footprintnetwork.org / calculator . About the Global Footprint
NetworkIl Global Footprint Network http://www.footprintnetwork.org/ ) is an environmental research organization that aims to increase sustainability through the use of the Ecological Footprint, a tool to assess resources that measures how much nature we have, how we use who uses what. The Global Footprint Network and its international network of partners is focused on solving the problem of overshoot, working with the heads of governments and commercial companies in the world to bring "ecological limits" in the center of decision-making.
What can we do? We can begin to reduce our personal impact in a car going less, last longer doing the things we buy, avoiding disposable drinking tap water, eating meat less frequently but better quality (biological) saving energy at home, without restructuring the existing cemented new territory.
What can we do? We can begin to reduce our personal impact in a car going less, last longer doing the things we buy, avoiding disposable drinking tap water, eating meat less frequently but better quality (biological) saving energy at home, without restructuring the existing cemented new territory.
Read more: www.footprintnetwork.org / calculator where there is a version adapted to the realities of different countries including Italy.
We challenge our leaders.
We challenge our leaders.
We urge our leaders to renew local and national strategies and spingiamoli to take necessary steps to create a more efficient use of resources. We need to invest in renewable energy, in limiting the consumption of soil and intelligent use of already urbanized areas, internal transport and eco-efficient, first bike.
For more information about our work on governments: http://www.footprintnetwork.org/ .
To learn more about the Earth Overshoot Day, visit http://www.footprintnetwork.org/earthovershootday .
Contacts in Italy: Roberto Brambilla (3388803715 - r.brambilla @ mclink.it ).
