Earth Overshoot Day 2020: Year’s resource 'budget' burnt though THIS WEEK – ‘A disaster’

Global Footprint Network added the overshoot date is “an unprecedented opportunity to reflect on the future we want”.

Marco Lambertini, head of World Wide Fund for Nature, said the pandemic had brought into focus “our unsustainable, wasteful, destructive frankly, relationship with nature.”

He added: “We can develop, but not at the expense of the planet because we know that the planet in crisis is a society in crisis, and an economy in crisis.”

However, although the campaigners’ attention-grabbing approach has been praised, not all experts are on board.

source: express.co.uk