mass consumption

Mass Consumption

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The Anthropocene

• From Hunter-Gatherers to a Global Geophysical Force in just 10,000 years.

• Proxy Waveforms for Global Consumerism • 1750 to 2000 Changing "Human Enterprise"

Note the Great Acceleration around 1950 in rate changes.

Mass consumption looks like this

Economics not sustainability awareness

• Ocean Gyres

Giant diffuse collection points of the plastic wasteof humanity. Takes many years for individual bottle cap to find itself here.

The WalMart Express

Cheap plastic crap here

Globalization Wave Form

Factor of 10 Growth in just 25 years! This is the principle driver of Climate Change

Global Economic Meltdown temporary blip

Shipping fleets gear up to serve more and more consumers

Non-Linear Scaling

Crank Turning

• Resource Scarcity• Physical limits to per capita resource usage• Increasing Global Inequity

This ultimately is our Post WWII consumption legacy and its definitely driving the coming resource shortage - Is this the end state of E? Does E require consumption to reach its principles because increasing prosperity requires increasing consumption?