Current state of consumption

We might have adopted many sus­tain­able prac­tices in our ev­ery­day life: -we know how to take biodegrad­able waste into bio waste bin or how to flat­ten milk car­tons and place them into trash -we may re­cy­cle pa­per and card­board boxes.

How­ever, at the same time, our way of life and the main­te­nance of in­di­vid­ual well-be­ing con­sumes too much of nat­u­ral re­sources from the planet. United Na­tions En­vi­ron­men­tal and De­vel­op­men­tal Pro­gram of Ac­tion states that un­sus­tain­able pro­duc­tion and over con­sump­tion are the main causes of global degra­da­tion of the en­vi­ron­ment and nat­u­ral re­sources. For ex­am­ple; the Finnish peo­ple con­sume di­rectly or in­di­rectly nat­u­ral re­sources at an av­er­age rate of al­most 100 tonnes per year. We are part of the 20% mi­nor­ity, that ac­counts for 80% of the world’s use of all nat­u­ral re­sources.

Here are few videos about the health of planet’s ecosys­tem and na­ture, pre­sented by Con­ser­va­tion.org: