Sustainable Human Behaviour, in harmony with the limits and boundaries of the Earth’s biosphere, is the only way to ensure the Earth for our descendants. At this current juncture, the Earth’s atmosphere has twice the carbon dioxide levels ever recorded. We know this because of the ice cores containing record of the last 400,000 years taken by scientists from the Arctic and Antarctic. We also know from these ice cores that temperature rise has followed atmospheric carbon levels and that rises in temperature cause sea levels to rise.
The carbon levels in our atmosphere have been caused by using fossil fuels because they are made from old plant matter which still contains the carbon it collected over milliea.
What is easy to forget at everyone alive on the plant today is habituated to an ecologically traumatised landscape where our actions as a species and the systems with have accepted have caused massive biodiversity loss and habitat destruction. Through our predatory economic and consumer appetites we have lost our connection to the fact that the decisions we make today will effect our descendants and we need to reconnect with this reality immediately.
