World Exhaustion Day – Austria has exhausted its resources for 2023

For the annual “Earth Overshoot Day” in each country, experts from the “Global Footprint Network” calculate through a complicated procedure when humanity’s average theoretical space needs, for example for urbanization, food cultivation and industrial production, exceed the Earth’s buffer capacities. From April 6, Austria will be in the front row.

“If everyone lived like us, we would need three planets. Austria’s annual resources have been used up after just three months,” said Lisa Panhuber, spokeswoman for Greenpeace. Austria must finally implement the recommendations of the climate council. “Instead of always just talking about the costs and hurdles of climate protection, politicians, entrepreneurs and the media should finally focus on the need and the opportunity. The federal government must start now – for example by implementing the 93 recommendations of the climate council.”

“Day shows absurd inequality”
The Arab Emirate of Qatar again had its earliest “Earth Overshoot Day” this year on February 10, the latest Earth Overshoot Day being in the West African state of Benin. “Congestion Day also shows the absurd inequality. Because globally, 56 of the richest industrialized countries – including all of Europe – are overloading the earth. That is where most of the profits of the linear economic system flow. However, the costs such as exploitation, waste of resources and heaps of waste are mainly borne by countries in the Global South,” Panhuber criticized.

At the same time, the experts also determine a global exhaustion day every year. The latter fell on July 28. According to Greenpeace, the international “Earth Overshoot Day” is a day earlier this year.