Years ago I used to work in a small veterinary practice in Conifer, Colorado. At the time this community was a very small and at lunch time I would walk up on the hill side and sit in a groove of old growth forest. It was quiet, very green, and offered a little reprieve from a busy practice.
One day at lunch I walked up the hill as usual only to find that someone had cut a huge swath right through the old growth trees and had started excavation to build a home. I counted the rings on very single stump and found that every tree was over 300 years old.
What I saw was a good example of what humanity consistently does. We harvest resources year after year with no way to replace what we have taken. This is the focus of Earth Over Shoot Day.
Always remember to live sustainably because this is how we build a better future.
Patrick
