The humanity will have consumed to 1 August all the resources that nature can renew in a year and live "on account " for five months, according to the NGO Global Footprint Network, which emphasizes that this date comes ever earlier .
August 1 is "the date on which we will use more trees, water, fertile soils and fish than the Earth can provide in a year to feed us, house us and move and issued more carbon than the oceans and forests can absorb, "explains Valérie Gramond of WWF, Global Footprint Network partner.
