Planetary Boundaries versus Wasteful and Polluting Gratification

Although prices encourage producers to use less resources, and consumers (sometimes) to be frugal, business (markets / trade / commerce) rewards, favours and incentivises gratuitous (Lat.) consumption, addiction, gluttony, and the potlatch. So, some countries now “use” (?):

• - 15 kg oil+gas/person/day & 275 million vehicles for 330 million people [usa]
• - 8 kg coal/person/day _ 600 kg/steel/capita/year [cn]
• - 3,550 air-passenger-km/person/year (causing 875 kgCO2eq/p/yr) [eu]
• - 350 g of meat/person/day [many countries]

or

• - 39 million vehicles for 28 million households [uk]
• - and 100 g offal/person/day going to waste (afaik/bbc) [uk]

or

• - 2,040 Watts of fossil energy consumed, for every person (of humans, whose maintenance body/metabolic energy requirement is 20-30 Watts) [globally in 2019]

People, all around the world, hope for these. (Especially because they are much promoted and marketed).

Commerce promotes (is #rewarded by) ever greater consumption (in excess and waste). That is mostly wasteful, destructive, and polluting. For example, in excess sports-vehicles/cars/airtravel/concrete/steel, excess meat/dairy, and other harmful & unnecessary gratification.

"Hi @JohnKerry / #XiJinping / @EUClimateAction and @NarendraModi with #WhatAreYouGoingToDoAboutThis?"

I would be very interested to hear your thoughts.

“THE GLOBAL COMMISSION ON THE ECONOMY AND CLIMATE” (2014, EU+, 308 pages) mentioned:

• - growth 753 times
• - but limits/constraints/cuts only around 100 times