Margaret Swedish's Blog (1)

Here is the challenge that keeps me awake nights. We are in ecological overshoot. The Earth can sustain indefinitely the consumption and waste of the US for half a billion people. We need 1.4 Earths to sustain current levels of human consumption and waste. We need 4-5 additional planets if we intend for everyone on Earth to aspire to the US way of life. We will add 2-3 billion people to the planet in the next 40 years. This is the very definition of non-sustainability. We are beyond overshoot,… Continue