Why does this matter?

Because we are living on a finite planet. Just as fixed income demands limits on expenditure, a finite planet demands limits on consumption.

Everything we use — food, clothes, electricity, fuel, buildings, gadgets — is taken from Earth. Yet modern society behaves as if resources are unlimited and waste disappears. They are not.

Today humanity consumes the equivalent of 1.8 Earths. We are cutting forests faster than they grow, using water faster than it refills, and filling the atmosphere with carbon faster than it can absorb.

Climate change is not a distant problem. It is the physical signal that we are overspending the planet.

On a finite Earth, unlimited consumption is impossible. That is why the Finite Earth Movement exists.

One new pair of clothes typically requires around 10,000 litres of water, emits 20–30 kg of CO₂, and releases chemicals that pollute soil and rivers.

The future will not be decided by promises. It will be decided by what we stop consuming.