Most of us are living in countries that cannot support our demands.
So we import our food and our power, and export our pollution and our environmental problems.
How do we see this in our everyday lives? How does it impact us?
You can already see some subtle signs in your supermarket.
Take a look at where certain types of food come from. The growing variety of countries that you now see on food packaging is a subtle indicator that our demands and desires can sometimes go far beyond our borders.
Our need for exotic foods and goods, out-of-season fruit all-year-round, or cheaper chicken...
our demand for beef, and preferably cheap beef, has meant that rainforests have been cleared and drylands (places like savannahs) have been irrigated so that we can feed this consumption [this is ecological debt
The size of your favourite fish on offer in your supermarket is getting smaller, and some
seafood that in the past was plentiful is now scarce and expensive, like cod and bluefin tuna
clipped from: www.panda.org