This year, the day of overconsumption fell on Thursday

According to WWF Hungary’s summary sent to MTI on Thursday, humanity reached the limit of overconsumption as early as December 23, 1970. Compared to the world average, the Hungarian data is even worse, as the turning point in Hungary came on May 25. Domestic consumption is such that if everyone lived like us, humanity would have used up the Earth’s resources for the whole year in less than 5 months – they emphasize.

As they point out, the day of overconsumption highlights that our current consumption habits cannot be sustained in the long term. However, the double environmental crisis – climate change and the drastic reduction of biological diversity – is caused to a significant extent by humanity’s way of life exploiting nature and the unsustainable operation of the economy.
Climate change threatens to make extreme weather phenomena more frequent, and the decrease in biological diversity threatens the stability of ecosystems. The two are interrelated, and together they aggravate the environmental crisis, they write.