Human activities cause warming, waste and want
A human-centred design with a nature-based metric creates incentive to minimise emissions, waste and inequality in our economy.
Human activities, particularly over the past 70 years have driven a massive increase in greenhouse gas emissions, leading to global warming, extreme weather, and rising sea levels.
According to the worlds governments we have 7 years to halve emissions towards net zero.
To achieve that we need to clearly define what ‘net’ means and we need to clearly define ‘zero’. Logically definitions, metrics and baselines are needed as a first step in meeting agreed targets.
Our linear ‘take-make-dispose’ economy wastes resources, harms ecosystems, and is unsustainable.
We are nominally 10% circular implying a 9x transition opportunity.
The 9x opportunity is found in the capture of lost and latent value that is today ‘externalised’ from financial transactions.
A simple algorithm can be applied to the counting of carbon in todays economy. This algorithm reflects past nature based metrics like shells, shekels and gold as a manifestation of value.
We can shift at pace and scale towards a holistic economic model that integrates financial, social, and natural capital. This 9x growth opportunity economic growth aligns with ecological sustainability and social equity, driving a more sustainable and resilient future.
