Can you live a life unplugged from the world?

 

 

Nice…can you live the simple island life, free from blackberry and twitter addictions? Trade your papaya with fellow island dwellers for kangkong? No need for cash or credit! Imagine, no paper or plastic! This article from the www.theEcologist.org examines what life would be if we went back to basics.

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Back to basics
Andrew Simms 22/04/2009

Uncontrolled growth of financial debt is currently laying waste to large parts of the global economy. An explosion of ecological debt looks set to do the same, but worse, to a biosphere friendly to human civilisation. 

Where climate change, one of many examples of ecological debt, is concerned, NASA scientist James Hansen says we’ve already gone too far. The atmospheric bank of biocapacity is too far in the red and vulnerable to collapse. ‘If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilisation developed and to which life on Earth is adapted,’ he wrote in the Open Atmospheric Science Journal in 2008, ‘CO₂ will need to be reduced… If the present overshoot… is not brief, there is a possibility of seeding irreversible catastrophic effects.’

Read the article: http://www.theecologist.org/pages/archive_detail.asp?content_id=2364