Last July 29th was determined as Earth Overshoot Day for 2019.\nwhich means that if we, as humanity, had an annual natural resource budget available, it would have been\nannual budget of natural resources available, it would have been exhausted on that day; practically five months before the end of the year.\nexhausted on that day; practically five months before the end of the year. That is\nIn other words, we would need 1.75 planet Earths to satisfy the annual demand for\nannual demand for natural resources, when in reality we only have one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This\n date, calculated by the international organization Global Footprint Network, unfortunately arrives earlier and earlier each year.\nNetwork, which unfortunately arrives earlier and earlier in the calendar each year, is not the only environmental alarm bell.\nis not the only environmental alarm bell, as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has\nIt should be recalled that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)\nClimate Change (IPCC) has also warned on repeated occasions that we have until 2030 to\nthat we have until 2030 to limit global warming to no more than 1.5\nto limit global warming to a maximum of 1.5 degrees Celsius or else there will be serious\nserious consequences of this climate change, some of which are beginning to be felt\n of which are beginning to be felt with greater force and severity year after year: hurricanes, floods, droughts, floods, droughts, hurricanes, floods\n year: hurricanes, floods, droughts, fires, and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This\noverexploitation of natural capital limits the resilience capacity of the Earth and puts the subsistence of all ecosystems at risk.\nresilience and threatens the livelihoods of all ecosystems, unless significant changes are\n unless significant changes are made to current patterns of human production, consumption and investment.\nproduction, consumption and investment patterns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From\nThis is not only the responsibility of governments and\/or companies, of course, but of each of us, as our actions as\nbut of each and every one of us, since our actions as consumers, as members of a community, or as citizens of an\nas consumers, as members of a community, or as citizens of a country, can be key to the\nas consumers, as members of a community, or as citizens of a country, can be key to detonate the transformation of a linear economy (based on the extraction of resources).\nlinear economy (based on the extraction of resources and the transformation of raw materials for the\n of raw materials for the subsequent production of goods, which are marketed and consumed, and\nand consumed, and whose residues are finally discarded), towards what is\nand consumed, and whose waste is finally discarded), towards what is now known as a \u201ccircular economy\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From\n according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (an international reference on the subject), the circular\n According to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (an international reference on the subject), the circular economy \u201cis a restorative economy that aims to keep products, components and\nthe objective of maintaining the usefulness of products, components and materials, and preserving\nmaterials, and preserve their value. It therefore minimizes the need for\n new inputs of materials and energy, while reducing the environmental pressures related to the\nenvironmental pressures related to resource extraction, emissions and waste.\nemissions and waste. In this way, opportunities arise to\ngrowth and employment, while at the same time reducing environmental pressures and impacts.\nenvironmental pressures and impacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To\n to put them into practice, it is necessary to change old paradigms,\nand the commitment of all sectors, since it is not enough just to reuse and recycle (which of course can be a good first step), but also to\nreuse and recycle (which of course can be a good first step), but also to use less and less resources in the\nto use fewer and fewer resources in the production processes, to opt for durable\ndurable goods over disposable or single-use goods,\ngenerating less waste, promoting greater use of clean energies and considering the social and environmental\nand consider the social and environmental impacts in the consumption and investment decision\nand investment decision-making processes, to mention a few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All\nmay seem too complex, but you can start with small actions at home or at work, which collectively\nsmall actions at home or at work that collectively contribute to a more sustainable and long-term\ncontribute to a more sustainable and long-term future in our community, state, country, region and planet.\nour community, state, country, region and planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
*Director of the IDEARSE Center for Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability at Universidad An\u00e1huac M\u00e9xico.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
El pasado 29 de julio se determin\u00f3 como el D\u00eda del Sobregiro de la Tierra para el 2019, lo que significa que, si como humanidad tuvi\u00e9ramos disponible un presupuesto anual de recursos naturales, \u00e9ste se hubiera agotado ese d\u00eda; pr\u00e1cticamente cinco meses antes de concluir el a\u00f1o. Es decir, necesitar\u00edamos 1.75 planetas Tierra para satisfacer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[297],"tags":[],"pais":[],"tipo-de-nota":[],"formato":[],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nexosmasuno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nexosmasuno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nexosmasuno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nexosmasuno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nexosmasuno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nexosmasuno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nexosmasuno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nexosmasuno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nexosmasuno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nexosmasuno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"pais","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nexosmasuno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pais?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"tipo-de-nota","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nexosmasuno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tipo-de-nota?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"formato","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nexosmasuno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/formato?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}