Solution
How can we find a balance with our planet and its finite resources?
All of humanity makes up just 0.01% of earth’s biomass
Yet our impact is colossal...
Humans 0.01%
Total living global biomass
11.20 GT
Total human made mass
11.54 GT
Concrete 549 GT
Bricks 92 GT
Aggregates 386 GT
Metals 39 GT
Asphalt 65 GT
Other 23 GT
The mass of finite resources we have extracted from our planet is
greater than that of all life on earth.
If we don’t act now
by 2040 the human-made mass extraction is predicted to triple the total amount of global living biomass
The current rate of accumulation for human-made mass is
30 Gt of mass per year
This is equal to each person on Earth producing their own weight in human-made mass every week.
Is opening up our planet’s last untouched wilderness – the deep ocean, really the solution to our supply crisis? The rare metals of the deep seabed are not the answer. They are the new oil.
We have created an infinite groth model on a finite planet.
A true green revolution must move away from extracting finite resources
