Your Invoice- 3rd Prize
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We’ve been consuming natural resources at an alarming rate.
The history of post-war economic growth has been one of unsustainable consumption. Our global ecological footprint has doubled over the last 40 years. To the point that, by some calculations, if the whole human population consumed at the same rate as the developed world, we would need 4-5 planet Earths just to keep up:
- in the last 300 years, the global forest area has shrunk by approximately 40%
- since 1900, the world has lost about 50% of its wetlands
- some 20% of the world’s coral reefs have been effectively destroyed
- in the past two decades, 35% of mangroves have disappeared
The effect of trends such as these is that approximately 60% of the Earth’s ecosystem services have been degraded in the last 50 years, with human impacts being the root cause.
Business-as-usual is not an option if we wish to safeguard our natural capital and the well-being of future generations. It’s time to Give the Earth a Hand.
