Overshoot is a meta-problem, the cause of climate change (including desertification, faltering ocean circulation, etc.), land/soil degradation, tropical deforestation, ocean acidification, fisheries collapses, sinking water tables, incipient food shortages, plastic and other chemical contamination of food...
Perfectly adapted to the warm climate and arid soil, cork oak forests protect against erosion and resulting desertification. They are barrier against fire, due to the weak combustion of cork and undertake an important role in the regulation of the hydrological cycle. They also provide an essential...
I would not say that ‘climate change is an irrelevance, economic growth a myth and sustainability is forty years too late’. I would say rather that climate change is largely a consequence of economic growth, that, because of human population growth and industrialisation...