...humanity will be consuming more natural resources and producing more waste than the forests, fields and fisheries of the world can replace and absorb. By doing so, the life -support systems that we all depend on are worn ever thinner. Farms become less productive, fish populations crash and climate regulating forests decline. All become less resilient in the face of extreme weather events.This phenomenon is occurring because capitalism requires ever greater growth of consumption and production in order to exist. We either dump this disastrous economic system or the ecosystem will dump us!
in the time remaining, to help us understand how the man-made system of capitalism will lead to the extinction of our human species, and so many others.
Monday, August 23, 2010
We've gone into the ecological red
by Andrew Simms from the Guardian.