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28 Jul 2022
2022 Earth Overshoot Day is today, 28 July
This means that since the beginning of 2022 humanity has already used as many resources as the planet can reproduce in a year.
The Global Footprint Network (GFN) has been calculating Earth Overshoot Day since the end of 1970 using the formula: global biomass / global ecological footprint × 365.
Earth Overshoot Day lands on 28 July. It means that tomorrow the number of renewable resources used by humans exceeds the limit the earth is able to reproduce in a year.
Overall, the trend is negative. Every year we use resources faster. Last year, the Earth Overshoot Day landed on a day later than previously, on July 29. In 2020 it occurred on August 28, and 50 years ago – at the end of December.
