Greta Thunberg, with a determination seldom seen in a child of 16 years old, told the UN this week that “we are at the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth, how dare you?”.
And it’s exactly this, the “fairytale of eternal growth” that we must be questioning in a radical way if we want to be honest about what is really happening with our planet.
In 1960, there were 3.1 billion people inhabiting planet earth, and today this has increased to 7.7 billion. This means that there are now 4.6 million more people on Earth and our population continues to grow by 155 people every minute according to worldometers.info, that carries out a birth rate count in real time.
