War with nature: Not only do we not have the right to destroy other species, we have the responsibility to ensure that this does not happen.
War with nature: Not only do we not have the right to destroy other species, we have the responsibility to ensure that this does not happen.
Smoking cigarettes kills 7 million people a year globally, and it scars the planet through deforestation, pollution and littering. Details of the environmental cost of tobacco are revealed in a study on the global tobacco epidemic released in 2017 by the World Health Organization (WHO).
I can speak of a man who knows that the world is not given by his parents but borrowed from his children, who has undertaken to cherish it and do it no …
Capitalism is built on economic growth. French economist Thomas Piketty said “Capitalism automatically generates arbitrary and unsustainable inequalities that radically undermine the meritocratic values on which democratic societies should be based”.
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) stated “More than 30 percent of the world’s fish populations have been pushed beyond their biological limits and are in need of strict management plans to restore them.
We all have aspirations for our lives. Aspirations are good and should be the goal of human economic activity – what better goals could we have?
This economic model also very cleverly displays where we are overshooting on the Earth’s ability to sustain humanity and life in general and also highlights where we are falling short of providing well-being for people in different countries or globally.
Economic growth has only delivered dilution of human values, waste, pollution, climate change, fresh water shortages and irreversible degradation of the environment and extinction of entire species.
since 1969 hundreds of thousands of dolphins have been brutally slaughtered at Taiji, Japan. Dolphin pod communities hundreds strong have been decimated or even annihilated and countless dolphin families torn apart in what can only be described as an ongoing genocide.
Tiger populations down from one hundred thousand to under four thousand in the last one hundred years.