There are a lot of problems with the way we're organized our occupation of the landscape.
Some of them are logistical, social, even spiritual problems, and some of them are ecological and economic problems.
有些造成生態問題,如環境污染和自然資源的剝削;有些造成經濟問題,如房價漲跌和次貸危機。
Any way of life that is based on the use of non-renewable resources and the hyper-exploitation of so called renewable resources, perceives the world around them as consisting of resources instead of focusing on beings and communities to enter these reciprocal relationships with, is going to destroy the land base.
This culture has been destroying its land base for the last 6000 years. That is not very smart on a finite planet.
Buildings consume 40% of the world's energy & 40% of the raw materials.
建築消耗了全世界能源和物料的百分之四十。
Buildings produce 40% of the CO2 emissions & 40% of the ozone depletion.
Extinction is not death-- it's the end of birth. It doesn't come back, ever.
It's estimated that as many as 200 species a day are becoming extinct.
每天都有兩百個物種走向絕種。
Each of us would have at our disposal something like 400 slaves.