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to keep consuming ecological resources at our current rate we would still need the equivalent of 1.6 Earths Photograph: John Giles/PA
August 26, 2020
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The rate at which humanity is consuming the Earth’s resources declined sharply this year as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to researchers. Consequently, Earth Overshoot Day, the point at which human consumption exceeds the amount nature can regenerate in a year, has moved back by over three weeks from 29 July in 2019 to 22 August this year.

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