For 20 years, I've only measured myself against actually saving the world.
Wasn't that way before 2001. It just clicked one day ("the paperwork" - if you know that story).
It just dawned on me how odd this is, and how different my life would be if many more people did it too.
Wasn't that way before 2001. It just clicked one day ("the paperwork" - if you know that story).
It just dawned on me how odd this is, and how different my life would be if many more people did it too.
I am right royally tired of people refusing to do the simple first principles math:
[sustainable harvest of the earth each year] divided by [eight billion people]
Now we design a lifestyle which works within, say, 2/3 of that limit so there is room for planetary regeneration.
[sustainable harvest of the earth each year] divided by [eight billion people]
Now we design a lifestyle which works within, say, 2/3 of that limit so there is room for planetary regeneration.
Every single idiot who talks about "regenerative community" or "circular economy" without CALCULATING WHAT THE NATURAL RESOURCE BUDGET IS FIRST is living in a total dreamworld.
Numbers are everything in sustainability. Do the math or get out of the way: we need plans not fables.
Numbers are everything in sustainability. Do the math or get out of the way: we need plans not fables.
earth-policy.org/books/pb4 one decent attempt at running the numbers.
If you want a more general rough estimate: $5000 a year of consumer spending is sustainable, everything after that is overconsumption: that's how little the earth really provides us.
$5000 is your real budget.
If you want a more general rough estimate: $5000 a year of consumer spending is sustainable, everything after that is overconsumption: that's how little the earth really provides us.
$5000 is your real budget.
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