Whoa - Stop! Monday

Between 1/3 and 1/2 of Earth's surface has been transformed by humans

Problem:

Pave The Earth Syndrome

"Human alteration of Earth is substantial and growing. Between one-third and one-half of the land surface has been transformed by human action; the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere has increased by nearly 30 percent since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution; more atmospheric nitrogen is fixed by humanity than by all natural terrestrial sources combined; more than half of all accessible surface fresh water is put to use by humanity; and about one-quarter of the bird species on Earth have been driven to extinction. By these and other standards, it is clear that we live on a human-dominated planet." - Source

 
Solution: 

Replace our present competitive, centralized, materialistic, perpetual growth system with one that is:

• cooperative
• decentralized
• community-based
• sustainable, and
• works with nature, rather than dominates it.

In order to achieve these goals, a small segment of the global population will will need to consume less. Other groups, in order to secure their basic needs, will need to consume more.

If each of us consumes more closely to what amounts to our "fair share", the world will be a more equitable place.

We can 'whoa - stop!', the human transformation of the Earth into a smoking, desolate, wasteland by the bulldozers of greed and ego.

I am standing in their way. Will you join me?