We are jeopardizing our future by not reining in our intense but geographically and demographically uneven material consumption…
By failing to adequately limit population growth, reassess the role of an economy rooted in growth, reduce greenhouse gases, incentivize renewable energy, protect habitat, restore ecosystems, curb pollution, halt defaunation, and constrain invasive alien species, humanity is not taking the urgent steps needed to safeguard our imperilled biosphere.….World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice (Ripple et al. 2017)
By failing to adequately limit population growth, reassess the role of an economy rooted in growth, reduce greenhouse gases, incentivize renewable energy, protect habitat, restore ecosystems, curb pollution, halt defaunation, and constrain invasive alien species, humanity is not taking the urgent steps needed to safeguard our imperilled biosphere.….World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice (Ripple et al. 2017)
The problem is that we do not often see the true ugliness of the consumer economy and so are not compelled to do much about it.
The distance between shopping malls and their associated mines, wells, corporate farms, factories, toxic dumps, and landfills, sometimes half a world away, dampens our perceptions that something is fundamentally wrong.
David OrrOrr, David. 1999. “The Ecology of Giving and Consuming,” in Consuming Desires: Consumption, Culture, and the Pursuit of Happiness (Roger Rosenblatt, editor). Island Press, Washington, DC
The distance between shopping malls and their associated mines, wells, corporate farms, factories, toxic dumps, and landfills, sometimes half a world away, dampens our perceptions that something is fundamentally wrong.
David OrrOrr, David. 1999. “The Ecology of Giving and Consuming,” in Consuming Desires: Consumption, Culture, and the Pursuit of Happiness (Roger Rosenblatt, editor). Island Press, Washington, DC
The problems of today should be understood and dealt with
at a developmental level
John Bowlbyen.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bowlby
at a developmental level
John Bowlbyen.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bowlby
Do people realise if biomass was an alternative (to fossil fuels) it would only last a year at best, to burn every hydrocarbon of the surface of the earth. How is that sustainable or renewable?yianiris
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Welfare of human beings is deeply linked to nature — to the existence in our world of a vast diversity of wild animals and plants12 Ways to Live More Sustainably | biologicaldiversity.org/programs/population_and_sustainability/sustainability/live_more_sustainably.html