03/06/2015
By Oliver Salge*
2 June 2015 — Six years ago, on the first of June, 2009, I was speaking with well-known companies about the problems cattle-ranching in Brazil is causing to the Amazon rainforest. I told them about how they contribute to rainforest destruction in the Amazon region and called on them to act against this.
Photo: Greenpeace
That same day, Greenpeace activists took action at the headquarters of the German sports clothing company, Adidas in Bavaria.
They handed over a groundbreaking report linking forest destruction caused by cattle ranching to the leather producers where Adidas was buying their leather for shoes.
That Greenpeace report, Slaughtering the Amazon, was the result of years of research and it linked the ongoing deforestation of the Amazon rainforest with the international market for beef and leather.
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03/06/2015
This year’s World Environment Day’s theme, ‘Seven Billion Dreams. One Planet. Consume with Care’, to b e celebrated on 5 June, encourages people to rethink their lifestyles and, through conscious consumer decisions, decrease humanity’s collective impact on nature’s resources.*
Photo: UNICEF/Wathiq Khuzaie
According to UNEP’s International Resource Panel (IRP), if unsustainable consumption and production patterns persist, by 2050 we will be using three planets- worth of natural resources to maintain our ways of living.
This means that it will take three years for the Earth to regenerate the resources we use in one year.
By 2050, humanity could be devouring about 140 billion tonnes of minerals, ores, fossil fuels and biomass per year – three times its current appetite – unless economic growth rate is decoupled from the rate of natural resource use.
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