An epic environmental disaster of unprecedented proportions is playing itself out in China. Yes, Europe and the United States are historically culpable for introducing and establishing capitalism without reference to sustaining natural capital as the foundation of economic life. Yet China has embraced resource intensive, ecosystem devastating capitalism [search] with a particular fervor. What is happening in terms of resource use, climate impact and junk consumer product production in China (much less the world) simply cannot be sustained. In a recent Earth Meanders personal essay — The Depauperate World of 2049 — I review the likely consequences of China being the first country to ecological implode, as well as a path to an equitable, just and sustainable future for all forever.

All right thinking free peoples have a choice to be made. Either learn to live ethically and environmentally responsibly as one of over 6 billion human inhabitants of the Earth, embracing personal virtue and sacrifice; or be part of the ecological devastation of everyday consumer living that is dismantling the Earth biosphere, and thus suffer with your children the horrific consequences of eating the Earth to death. This environmental leader is telling you the full truth: personal sacrifice is required for the Earth, climate and humanity to survive.