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Three trends bode ill for our future: the increase in weather disasters, the black market in organs and the growing demand for drinking water.
This chart at the link above illustrates a staggering fact: The last 30 years have yielded four times as many weather-related disasters as the first three quarters of the 20th century combined. Tornadoes, hurricanes, wildfires, floods. You might say that the earth is throwing ominous tantrums.
Unfortunately, our reaction to such natural outbursts – as well as to the problems of skewed data on CO2 emissions, resource annihilation, and latent toxicity in our land and water – hasn’t spiked nearly as dramatically. Instead, we seem content to simply refine our existing patterns of consumption. If a mass-produced plastic label promises that a product is “green”, we’ll likely buy it and feel satisfied for having done our part.
We may owe our collective lack of environmental consciousness to the convenience of invisibility. We dispose of our waste in neat receptacles, rarely bearing witness to its grim deterioration. We marvel at the efficiency of the industrialized world yet seldom glimpse the colossal infrastructures that make such modern efficiencies possible.
But the taxing effects of the Western lifestyle are becoming more globally conspicuous than ever. And yet still, we’re largely unable to admit to the problem. Perhaps the world is experiencing a complex state of collective denial? Three trends bode ill for our future: the increase in weather disasters, the black... more
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