The amount of trash generated by the UK could fill Britain's largest lake, Lake Windermere, in just 8 months. We used to get through 500 million plastic bags every week in the UK – amounting to billions of bags and thousands of tonnes of plastic.
“Two conditions of self-sustaining growth are that a country has acquired a cadre of domestic entrepreneurs and administrators and, secondly, that it has attained to adequate savings and taxable capacity.” Arthur Lewis
A CSIRO study estimated that climate change would increase the rate of losses in Australia about fivefold, with 10 birds and seven mammals becoming extinct in the next 20 years “without purposeful intervention”
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