We may only have eighteen years as of October of 2024 before the earth of planet Gaia becomes very much more difficult to make sustainable at current rates of consumption.
However, we can, should and must do very, very much (including invent, innovate, and reuse so very much at greatly minimized cost) to solve and address this proble.
We must minimize our waste (to zero as much as is truly feasible).
We have but this narrow window of time and opportunity with approximately 8.186 billion humans living in this world (World Population Clock: 8.2 Billion People (LIVE, 2024) - Worldometer).
In the billions of animals exist also.
The total animal population on Earth is estimated to be about 20 quintillion, or 20 billion billion.
The food that we eat comes from the earth and the oceans.
If these are depleted, we cannot grow more food.
If our water becomes too toxic, we will either die of thirst or die from drinking toxified water (or both).
This is of what can occur in reality.
The list of necessary and critical actions we must and should do are:
- develop and implement effective agrarian strategies and techniques (whether ancient or newly proven such as "regenerative agriculture")
- minimize waste (e.g.* no more styrofoam "To-Go" boxes)
- reduce and minimize fossil fuel consumption (drive and fly less, bike and walk more)
- reuse everything as much as reasonable and feasible (we should remain amenable (willing) to doing things which are not to our mere comforts nor superficial preferences and rather willing to learn and experience that which may be beyond our current understanding and familiarity which could help)
- recycle if energy efficient (some recycling practices have been wasteful of fossil fuels such as aluminum cans; we should reuse the same containers rather than spend so much oil remaking aluminum cans)
If we don't do this, we may all suffer badly before going extinct whether within 10, 100, 1000 years or more. We may even suffer as souls disembodied despite God's best efforts if we fail to do the above.
Here are some works that support my assertion (that we only have about eighteen years to make the most of what we have, to most assuredly keep a good life possible for all people, is from a spiritual experience I had during a morning in early October 2024 looking at some earth and plants nearby a library in Louisiana):
Only 60 Years of Farming Left If Soil Degradation Continues | Scientific American
The Importance of Soil Revitalization and 5 Methods to Save the Soil (sadhguru.org)
8 Must-Watch New Sustainable Agriculture Documentaries (nycfoodpolicy.org)
* e.g. means "example gratuis" in Latin and "for example" in English