The disconnect from the reality of what we are facing is so jarring for all of us paying attention. Cheap fashion and expensive fashion, wasteful plastic but discounted yay, electronics so many electronics on sale, shoes, books, you name it - buy it, save money, you don’t need it? No worries, it’s discounted, so get it anyway. What this means is we continue to take more and more resources from this finite planet and by doing so, we are totally screwing the next generation. It does not contribute to bringing World Overshoot Day in alignment with earth either. E-commerce giants Alibaba, JD.com keep Singles’ Day sales results under wraps amid China’s economic woes, zero-Covid-19 policy – interesting read, maybe it’s not economic and instead, an attempt to stop celebrating the gluttony?īut don’t worry, we’re obviously getting the message, especially this week, with social media and the online world FULL of advertising for crap that does not contribute to a better existence for all life on earth. That means anything we consume beyond July 28th is using “all the biological resources that Earth regenerates during the entire year.” And our year-on-year debt has been growing for decades, which is why we’re seeing so much crazy stuff going on in our environment. We are in overshoot and taking far more than what earth can provide, and this year World Overshoot Day fell on July 28th. For years I’ve been sharing that we should NOT be celebrating the successes of Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Singles Day, or whatever other mega sale is on the calendar.
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