of global footprint network mr becker mego it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time thank you for having me it's a pleasure now we're recording this conversation on the eve of earth over should day reach this year according to your calculations falls on august first and for all what i understand this is not an occasion for celebration as far as you are concerned yeah we call this remark earth over should be it's a day in the year by which we have used as much from the planet as the planet can renewed entire year and it falls on august first this year and from what i understand it's also the early is that it's been in the recent years why is that. actually entire history of humankind its earliest date ever we've never been as large as a population a consumption is still going up yes productivity of agriculture is going up which is mitigating a little bit but overall demand is still exceeding what we kind of renewed more and more from for those of our viewers who have never heard about these day what exactly does it mean. so essentially the our ecological accountants s

environmental insolvency well to discuss that i'm now joined by matisse back or neck go see all of global footprint networks mr becker negs good to talk to you thank you very much for your time thank you for having me it's a pleasure now we're recording this conversation on the eve of earth over should day reach this year according to your calculations falls on august first and for all what i understand this is not an occasion for celebration this far as you are concerned yeah we call this remark earth over should be it's a day in the year by which we have used as much from the planet as the planet can renewed entire year and it falls on august first this year and from what i understand it's also the early is that it's been in the recent years why is that. actually entire history of humankind its earliest date ever we've never been as large as a population a consumption is still going up yes productivity of agriculture is going up which is mitigating a little bit but overall demand is still exceeding what we kind of renewed more and more from what for those of our viewers who have never heard about this day

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welcome back to worlds apart with medicine record necker seal of global footprint network that's a back negative just before the break we were talking about what essentially is called sustainable development you know keeping countries developing but doing it in a sustained. well fashion and correct me if i'm wrong but i know that among some ninety countries that. you are going to say she looked at you only found one country that meets the minimum criteria for sustainable development and the sisk yuba is that actually a positive finding is that something that gives you hope let me give you a bit more context of just currently would me look at what are the conditions for sustainable development it's very simple to actually say that because it's two words sustainable development development means you want to have great allies the united nations measures that by how long are you lives how high is your income and you have access to education and they measure it as a human development index from zero to one then the higher we are the better they say higher than zero point eight would be high