eco-system earth
THE LOW-DOWN...
Sustainability is inevitable for us as a species, as a planet. The other option is destruction.
That is about as simple as sustainability gets. The planet is an eco-system, a finely tuned battery, that recharges and discharges in relation to what is put in and taken out. Unfortunately, the way we are living currently, we are taking out more than we are putting back in. What happens to batteries when we use them too much? They die, and that is what is so evidently happening to our planet. The most alarming thing though, we know this is happening. We record it, we report it, we see it in our daily lives, and despite all this, we are not doing enough to make a difference. We have to evolve our way of living, or the alternative is inevitable. |
DID YOU KNOW...
Recycling 1 Ton of paper saves 17 trees, 2 barrels of oil, 4,100 kilowatts of energy, 3.2 cubic yards of landfill space and 60 pounds of air pollution
Every year we dump a massive 2.12 billion tons of waste. Annually we extract 55 billion tons of bio-mass, fossil energy, metal and minerals from the earth. At least 50 million acres of rainforest are lost every year, an area the size of England, Wales and Scotland combined. If Earth’s history is compared to a calendar year, modern human life has existed for 23 minutes and we have used one third of Earth’s natural resources in the last 0.2 seconds |