Humanity and the Environment

I was reading about our impact on the environment in todays times, it seems that humanity is exceeding the Earth's ability to support us by 25%!

Each of us in the UK uses 2.2 hectares of resources to live, but the Earth can only renew 1.8 hectares. The article said there's a strong possiblity of a large scale collapse of the eco system by the middle of this century.

Once again the point was made that the UK is quite a bad offender, though there are worse out there. This just makes the point about humanity's need to get into tune with our environment. Benjamin Hoff said in the Te of Piglet that the environment would eventually turn on us, I'm reminded of the Taoist principle that when something reaches an extreme it become it's opposite. Unfortunately, unles we get proactive very quickly, it'll take an extreme event to make us change.

I can't help feeling the the emphasis is on the average Joe/Jane to make the running on this one, in this case, the big corporations and government need to be driven by public demand. What's needed is for the public to lead the way, it really is in our hands.

More on BBC News Online here.