How can people manage the environmental and social costs of globalisation for a better world?
We have yet to see that happen. The environment or nature is threatened in every part of our world from the atmosphere to plant and animal life, down to the ground beneath our feet. We need to take a serious look at resource management and not treat food, water and air quality as things that will never be exhausted at our current use rate. Our current world population of around seven-billion and growing is already at the point of exceeding its ability to feed itself. This is called carrying capacity or too many people using too much of our planet’s finite, non-renewable resources and filling its waste repositories of land, water and air to overflowing. The true danger posed by our exploding population is not our absolute numbers but the inability of our environment to cope with so many of us doing what we do. It is becoming clearer every day, as crises like global warming, water, soil and food depletion, biodiversity loss and the degradation of our oceans constantly worsen, that the hu
