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Climate warning

Flawed perception evident in the 'Parent Letter to World Leaders'

Your letter reveals a false assumption that the transition to renewable energy will solve the climate crisis. Unfortunately, both the climate crisis and the ecosystems breakdown are the consequence of the globally popular cultures of pronatalism and growth economics. Environmental scientists warned in 1970 that there are three key drivers in human activity that cause degradation and destabilisation to our global ecosystems. The I=PAT insights inform us that increasing our population size, affluence, and reliance on technology will increasingly degrade ecosystems and threaten biodiversity.
My most recent article is published free on Medium and LinkedIn, in it I explain how storytelling can be both helpful and unhelpful. The delusion that the energy transition is a solution is an extremely unhelpful meme that sustainability experts are still clinging to, despite the insights from IPAT and the data on ecological overshoot.
Sadly, your letter fails to recognise that we are exceeding the carrying capacity of Earth by an estimated 0.8 global hectares per capita and 5 billion people. In the current context of escalating ecological overshoot and collapse, our family orientated culture and our reliance on growth economics are ecocidal. Academics, teachers, and the public, have all been brought up to trust in the concept of the nuclear family and growth economics to guide our progress. Neither of these social guidelines are helpful in a world undergoing escalating ecosystems collapse, and in the final stages of the Sixth Mass Extinction.
If humanity wish to avoid extinction this century they must act on the insights offered from I=PAT, and the data about ecological overshoot from the Global Footprint Network. If you would like to see a voluntary and peaceful ambition to return our global enterprise within the carrying capacity of Earth, you might like to support and share the petition for a UN Charter for Ecological Justice.

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    This letter presents a narrow view by focusing solely on renewable energy, neglecting the broader systemic issue which are critical drivers of environmental degradation as warned by scientists decades ago.⚠⚠⚠

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