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for everyone's need, but not for everyone's greed, said Mahatma Gandhi in 1947.
Gandhi's prescient words came on the cusp of a great
acceleration in human consumption and production that now results in "Earth
overshoot day."
We are borrowing from our future and we are altering Earth's
natural cycles to the extent that there is a mountain of evidence we have
entered a new geological epoch -- the Anthropocene.
This world we have created is a world of waste and
imbalance, where 800 million go hungry each night, but more than two billion
suffer obesity; and while scarcity and shortages plague some places, waste is
prevalent: 30 percent of electricity produced, 40 percent of food produced and
50 percent of transportation capacity is wasted. Every dollar of GDP produced
produces more than a dollar in unaccounted pollution, waste, health risks and
loss of nature.
Read the blog from the Executive Director of Future Earth, Dr.
Paul Shrivastava -“Welcome to the World of Waste and Imbalance”.
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