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A
broader view over the Earth's Environment
Back
in 2010, when we launch our volunteer program of consumption
downshifting – dfE - we did have some deep certainties based on our
previous experiences. We stated in the first dfE post that “...
the economical grow itself is a paradigm...”, “... such over
accelerated economic boom, in latest centuries, had caused to Earth
indubitable losses - such as global warming and its consequences -,
planetary wide disequilibrium and Nature mass destruction.”
Even
with these certainty in our backpacks, at that time we had a tiny
little feeling that we could be possibly wrong. As “everything is
possible”, Planet could be just copping with all human activities
and to downshift
would be a silly decision. But, in any case, the journey seemed to
fit perfectly to either confirm of refrain our thoughts. And after
all, what is better than check out on the spot and dedicate time for
information gathering to defeat eventual doubts?
Well,
after 20 months in the journey, about 15 countries visited, lots of
observations, many books read, information gathering and reflection,
we were exposed to many outstanding facts, which we previously
ignored by ourselves.
After all, our conclusion is that the Planet is
indeed suffering with human activity.
