Planet out of business | Max Gustafson
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Planet out of business | Max Gustafson
Same day shipping. Buy it without seeing it in person first. Free returns. The speed of commerce quickening at the same pace the cost and quality of the goods are decreasing. And the amount of things we keep buying shows no sign of abating. Amazon is on its way to selling half a trillion dollars worth of goods in America this year. And with new bar
... See moreIf industry prevails and we stick with a business-as-usual scenario — and pretty much all data indicates this is what we are doing — we’ll blow through our carbon budget in less than seven years.9 Global temperature rise will continue on its trajectory of 3°C10 increase or worse by the end of the century, and, in environmentalist Bill McKibben’s wo
... See moreAndrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
The scientific and industrial revolutions have brought us enormous freedom and prosperity. Increasingly, we also witness the massive shadow they cast on our future. One shadow is “innovation gone mad.” With most of our basic needs taken care of, businesses increasingly try to create needs, feeding the illusion that more stuff we don’t really need—m
... See moreFrederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: An Illustrated Invitation to Join the Conversation on Next-Stage Organizations
And even if most Americans did suddenly “green” their lifestyles, underlying processes of production and disposal that are largely insulated from personal consumption decisions would still drive the planetary ecosystem toward collapse,
The Worldwatch Institute • State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?
“Our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life,”45 and sometimes the solution: we need a “Marshall Plan for the Earth.”