From the IISD (International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg Canada
This is not about environment, it is about getting us to consent to Globalists desire to control every aspect of our lives and all resources on the planet.
In 2019, Earth Overshoot Day, the day that humanity uses up its allowance of natural resources such as water, soil and clean air for the entire year, fell on 29 July, according to the Global Footprint Network. This means that humanity is currently using nature 1.75 times faster than the Earth’s ecosystems can regenerate.
Earth Overshoot Day has crept up by two months over the past 20 years, with 2019’s date being the earliest since the world began to overshoot in the 1970s. The carbon footprint from burning fossil fuels is the fastest growing component of the global ecological footprint, accounting for 60% of the total. The cost of ecological “overspending” has led to increased deforestation, soil erosion, collapse of fisheries, biodiversity loss and carbon dioxide (CO2) build up in the atmosphere.
According to the Global Footprint Network, solutions are already available and financially advantageous, with opportunities related to cities, energy, food, population and the planet. For example, reducing CO2 emissions from fossil fuel burning by 50% would move Earth Overshoot Day back 93 days and contribute to SDG 7 (affordable and clean energy). In addition, use of existing energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies for buildings, industrial processes and electricity production could move Overshoot Day back by at least 21 days, without any loss in productivity or comfort, according to research undertaken by Schneider Electric and the Global Footprint Network.
Other examples of solutions include:
- Reducing driving by 50% and assuming one-third of car miles are replaced by public transportation and the rest by biking and walking would move Earth Overshoot Day back 11.5 days, thereby contributing to, among others, SDG 11 (sustainable cities and livelihoods);
- Decreasing global meat consumption by 50% would move Overshoot Day back by 15 days, and halving food waste would move Overshoot Day 10 days back, thereby contributing to SDGs 12 (responsible consumption and production) and 2 (zero hunger); and
- Reforesting 350 million hectares of forest would move Overshoot Day back by eight days, contributing to
The UN universal human rights states, we have the right to ‘Adequate’ water, good, energy, housing etc. Who decides what is ‘Adequate’? The UN and its globalist partners, the same one who want to control you and everything on the planet. Because they tell you we are using too many resources, it gives them the right to force us to cut back on our use of water, food, energy, housing etc.
The term and meaning of a Resource-Based Economy was originated by Jacque Fresco. It is a holistic social and economic system in which all goods and services are available.
If Maurice Strong embodied the bold political vision to bring nations together, Jim brought a consistently tough, detailed and sophisticated policy lens that established pathways to sustainability. Together, both men represented Canada’s remarkable international leadership in the first generation of the global sustainable development agenda. Without them, neither the Paris Climate Change Conference nor the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals would likely have happened in 2015.
Jim MacNeill, a founding member of IISD and thought leader on sustainable development.
As Secretary General of the landmark Brundtland Commission, (Our Common Future), Jim elaborated what is now the definition of sustainable development: “Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
He served as Deputy Minister to the Canadian federal government, as well as Canada’s Ambassador and Commissioner General for the 1976 United Nations Conference on Human Settlement- Vancouver, Habitat 1 1976
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Go to your library and read it.
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It Blows the doors off the Environmental Fraud.
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