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Human consumption of the Earth's resources declined in 2020

 The rate of humanities consuming resources has declined in a major way because of the COVID-19 Pandemic according to researchers. Constantly Earth Overshoot Day, the point at which human consumption exceeds the amount nature can regenerate in a year, has moved back by over three weeks from 29 July in 2019 to 22 August this year. The pandemic made humanities ecological footprint go down 9.3% compared to last years results. This is the biggest shift the earth has ever seen since 1970. There was also a large drop in CO2 emissions. The number dropped by almost 15% because of the lockdown

Sources: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/aug/21/human-consumption-of-the-earths-resources-declined-in-2020

By:Anthony Cooper