What Happened Today? Flew to Fort Lauderdale. Mark picked me up. Heavy traffic. We called on Somay and Highlander. Dinner at a Cuban restaurant.
GAIA- Planetary Management:
136. One billion over affluent people enjoy lifestyles that impose a grossly disproportionate pressure on our planetary ecosystem.
137. This consumerism is powered in turn by a sudden expansion in technological knowhow, enabling us to use and misuse ever-greater stocks of natural resources– even to use them up.
138. In fact, rather than a “population crisis” or a “resource crisis”, we should speak of a single over-arching crisis: the crisis of humankind.
139. The shadow stems from all of us, and it will darken all our lives.
140. On land, we plough up virgin areas, even though most of them are marginal at best.