{"id":494,"date":"2015-08-14T14:13:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T12:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.landscapeunifi.it\/land\/2015\/08\/14\/the-overshoot-day\/"},"modified":"2015-08-14T14:13:35","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T12:13:35","slug":"the-overshoot-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.landscapeunifi.it\/en\/2015\/08\/14\/the-overshoot-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The Overshoot day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-492\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.landscapeunifi.it\/land\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/7990-eurostat-italia-poche-foreste-e-troppe-case.jpg\" alt=\"7990-eurostat-italia-poche-foreste-e-troppe-case\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.landscapeunifi.it\/land\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/7990-eurostat-italia-poche-foreste-e-troppe-case.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.landscapeunifi.it\/land\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/7990-eurostat-italia-poche-foreste-e-troppe-case-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Today is the overshoot day. It &nbsp;marks the date when humanity\u2019s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year. On the newspaper this morning they say we cut too many forests, we eat too many &nbsp;animals we consume &nbsp;too many vegetables etc. It all make sense, but it is &nbsp;useful to clarify. In Italy forests passed from 4.000.000 ha to 11.000.000 in the last decades and we utilize &nbsp;only 1\/4 of them. Forests have increased all over Europe, &nbsp; from Sweden to Italy; &nbsp;the growth rate on abandoned farmed &nbsp;land is about 800.000 ha \/ year according to FAO. In Italy we passed from 24.000.000 to only 12.000.000 ha of cultivated land and &nbsp;we are importing food from other continents, &nbsp;since we stopped cultivating (as in most of Europe). &nbsp;Thus, what we actually need is more cultivated land and less forests. Let\u2019s see if &nbsp;all these environmental agencies include in the calculation of the ecological footprint &nbsp;also the land that someone else &nbsp;is cultivating for &nbsp;us and inform the public &nbsp;about this.&nbsp;It would be more &nbsp;\u201csustainable\u201d to produce &nbsp;the food we need &nbsp;in our countries.&nbsp; With more than 7.5 billions of people on the earth and 70% more food to produce in the next 50 years &nbsp;it is not a bad idea. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the overshoot day. It &nbsp;marks the date when humanity\u2019s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year. On<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-ed-eventi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landscapeunifi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landscapeunifi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landscapeunifi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landscapeunifi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landscapeunifi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.landscapeunifi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landscapeunifi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landscapeunifi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landscapeunifi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landscapeunifi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}