IT IS a pity we have only one planet to live on. The latest planetary health assessment shows we need 1.4 Earths to sustain the average lifestyle. If we don’t slow down, the report warns, “humanity is at risk”.
The UN Environment Programme released its fourth Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report last week. And while the human ecological footprint is 21.9 hectares per person on average, the Earth’s biological capacity is just 15.7 hectares per person.
According to the Global Footprint Network, we went into ecological debt on 6 October this year, having consumed more than the planet can regenerate…
