May 10 marks the day in 2019 when humanity would have exhausted all the resources that the Earth could produce in a year if everyone lived like residents of the European Union, according to a new report by WWF and the Global Footprint Network published on Thursday 9 May.
In other words, "If everybody in the world lived like the average EU resident, we would have used up nature’s budget for the year by the 10 May, and would need 2.8 planets ", the two NGOs expressed in alarm. This is...