May 4 is EarthOvershootDay. This year, Germany has once again used up its share of resources prematurely. If all countries had the same consumption as Germany, humanity would need three planets to sustain its lifestyle. DW's cityofexiles reports. 👇
On May 4, Germany exhausted its capacity to sustain itself. This "earth overshoot" will be compensated by taking finite resources from poorer countries — and future generations.Despite the economic slowdown due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Germany has now overreached its sustainable biological limits. is, like last year, projected to be around July 28.
Back in 1970, the Earth's biocapacity — defined as an"ecosystems' capacity to produce biological materials used by people and to absorb waste material generated by humans" — was more than enough to meet annual human demand forHumanity now needs around 1.7 planets to maintain its lifestyle, while Germany needs three.
Countries like Indonesia or Ecuador, for example, do not overshoot until December and are close to living within their means. But they are the target of resource exploitation by richer nations like"Germany is the fifth-biggest consumer of raw materials in the world, and is importing up to 99% of minerals and metals from countries in the Global South," said Lara Louisa Siever, senior policy advisor for resource justice at the German development network, INKOTA, in 2022.
"The big problem we have in Germany, that we have in general in the Global North, is that we have not yet understood that resources are finite," said Viola Wohlgemuth,She refers to World Resources Institute data showing that 90% of biodiversity loss is due to"resource exploitation and conversion to productsthis "enormous resource crisis," nations like Germany"have not learned," Wohlgemuth said.
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