World Overconsumption Day has shifted more than three weeks later this year, compared to last year

By: Trademagazin editor Date: 2020. 08. 16. 11:20

More than three weeks later than last year, August 22 is World Day of Overconsumption, the date by which the Earth’s population is depleting the planet’s one-year resources, according to a World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) statement that the shrinking human ecological footprint is a direct consequence of restrictions due to a coronavirus pandemic.

Although the pandemic has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives so far worldwide and caused significant economic damage, the ecological footprint of the Central and Eastern European countries has remained more or less unchanged, compared to 2019. The citizens of the region again this year exhausted the natural resources at their disposal before 31 December. As last year, Hungary reached the day of overconsumption on June 14 this year. (MTI)