On August 2, 2017 humanity will have used natures budget for the entire year.

“Earth Overshoot Day” is today. What is mean this?! According to environmental groups WWF and Global Footprint Network, Earth will have used up its allowance of planetary resources such as water, soil, and clean air for all of 2017. Humans has already consumed more natural resources than the planet can renew throughout 2017. It means humanity will be living on "credit" for the rest of the year. Earth Overshoot Day is the date when humanity's annual demand on nature exceeds what Earth can regenerate over the whole year. Humanity will have used up its allowance of planetary resources such as water, soil, and clean air for all of 2017 by Wednesday, a report by the Global Footprint Network said. "This means that in seven months, we emitted more carbon than the oceans and forests can absorb in a year. We caught more fish, felled more trees, harvested more, and consumed more water than the Earth was able to produce in the same period." Through overfishing, cut of forests, and emitting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, humans are demanding more from the earth than it can produce. The world has already exhausted nature’s budget for the entire year and from this day and for the rest of the year, we will be using more resources than the planet can renew in a year. Earth Overshoot Day has been calculated every year since 1986. In 1993, it fell on 21 October, in 2003 it arrived on 22 September, and in 2015 it was on 13 August. By 2016 it had reached 8 August. The costs of this global ecological overspending include deforestation, drought, fresh water scarcity, soil erosion, biodiversity loss and the buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The grim mark may have reversed throughout the calendar, but campaigners said the move had slowed down. The report says individuals can contribute to stopping, and eventually reversing, the trend by eating less meat, burning less fuel, and cut back on food waste. Eating less protein-intensive food worldwide could move Overshoot Day 31 days. The Global Footprint Network, a global research organization, reported that food makes up 26 per cent of our global footprint. But if we cut food waste in half, ate less protein-intensive foods and consumed more fruit and vegetables, it could be reduced to 16 per cent. "We caught more fish, felled more trees, harvested more, and consumed more water than the Earth was able to produce in the same period" report from environmental groups has said. It added: "This means that in seven months, we emitted more carbon than the oceans and forests can absorb in a year" Over the course of a year we use 170 per cent of the world's natural output. Currently, carbon emissions make up 60 per cent of humanity’s Ecological Footprint. If carbon emissions were cut in half, the date of Earth Overshoot Day would be pushed back by 89 days, or about three months. Reducing the carbon component of the global Ecological Footprint by 50% would move Overshoot Day by 89 days. “Our planet is finite, but human possibilities are not. Living within the means of one planet is technologically possible, financially beneficial, and our only chance for a prosperous future”, stress Mathis Wackernagel, CEO of Global Footprint Network and co-creator of the Ecological Footprint. Greenhouse gas emissions from burning coal, oil and gas make up 60 percent of mankind's ecological footprint on the planet. Ecological Footprint is the amount of productive surface area required to provide all he or she uses, including areas to produce food, fibers, and timber. Our global Ecological Footprint expands further beyond what the planet can renew. As the global population has grown and consumption has increased, we must to say: “Stop”! The message from our planet is clear and one we cannot ignore. The future lies in development trajectories that also reduce humanity's ecological footprint.