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SUN - THE SOURCE OF ALL ENERGY
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No life as we know it would exist if there was no sun. Energy from the sun provides the energy for all sorts of natural production, as well as agrticulture for food production
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NATURAL SYSTEMS ARE FOUNDATIONAL FOR FISHERIES
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Many of the natural ecosystems rely on places like this. For example the wild fisheries require places like this at the start of their life cycle.
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NATURAL SYSTEMS ARE FOUNDATIONAL FOR AGRICULTURE
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Agriculture and the production of food is carried out on land.
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WITHOUT POLLINATION NATURAL SYSTEMS WILL FAIL
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Pollination is an essential part of most crop life-cycles. Bees are an important pollinator. One image is a healthy bee, the other dead bees, probably killed by agricultural chemicals.
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NATURAL RESOURCES ... MINING FOR MINERALS AND COAL
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Many of the materials used in finished products used by consumer use materials that are produced from minerals that are mined. They are both valuable and do damage.
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NATURAL RESOURCES ... EXTRACTION OF PETROLEUM ENERGY
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Many of the materials used in finished products used by consumer use materials that are produced from minerals that are mined. They are both valuable and do damage.
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MINING
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FARMING
Everything starts with nature ... but the importance of nature is ignored in most of economics, business management and politics. Natural ecosystems make clean water and air, maintain the productivity of soil, stabilize the climate and so much more.
There are complex networks that link the lifecycles of animals (including fish) and plants and are essential for life to go on season after season.
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ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION - POLLUTED OCEANS
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PLASTIC
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The modern economy produces a massive amount of waste. There is waste at every stage of the produce life cycle, and the costs of this waste are ignored in conventional financial management accounting.
Industry has a history of doing the minimum to reduce air pollution both as regards human health and the impact on the environment.
Agriculture and industry are using more water than the natural replenishment, and there are massive flows of polluted water into most major watersheds
Industry has also embraced the use of plastic ... including single use plastic ... without doing much about the way the plastic pollutes both land and seas and kills wildlife.
In addition industry has had little interest in ensuring that important ecosystems remain viable, both as regards biodiversity and also climate stability. Many scientists now consider that the climate situation has morphed into a climate crisis.
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