Learning to live with less is saving for the future

Learning to live with less is #besparen in the future.

The unbridled consumption causes us to deplete the Earth. You can see now that the pandemic is (hopefully) coming to the end. We're going back to the “normal life” . But was it a normal life before the pandemic?

To find the last time we were (almost) able to live within the limits of the Earth, we have to go back to the 70s.
This is how quickly we have started to put pressure on Earth:
1970: December 29
1985: November 4
2000:23 September
2015: August 6th
2018:1 August
2019: July 29
2020: August 22
2021: July 29

In less than 50 years, we have gone from an almost completely sustainable lifestyle to a situation where we use more than is possible after 6 months and 28 days, causing deforestation, overfishing, global warming and a great loss of biodiversity. That's not something to be happy. And even a disaster like the coronavirus apparently doesn't allow us to live within the limits of the Earth. In 2020, Earth Overshoot Day was temporarily — and still insufficient — pushed back, but a year later, we're back to the old level.

Never heard of Earth Overshoot Day? Or the ecological footprint? This video explains briefly with illustrations.

Footprint Test

 

Who Causes Earth Overshoot Day?

we. people. All of us. But honestly, some of us cause it a little, or a whole lot, more than others. Global Footprint Network, the organization behind the day, not only calculates the global Earth Overshoot Day, but also does so by country.

#besparen #earth