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Australia’s Earth Overshoot Day a stark reminder of the need for change (acehub.org.au)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/environment@aussie.zone
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Australia consistently ranks among the highest resource consumers per capita in the world, an unenviable position driven by our high energy use, resource-intensive industries, and significant waste generation. You may have heard the saying before, but if everyone in the world lived like Australians, we would require multiple planets to sustain our lifestyle.

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[–] [S] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Maybe people do use parks more? I'm not sure.

Theres a lot more stuff inside our houses to do now, and I seem to remember reading an article saying we are spending less time outdoors and drawing the connection between that and the increasing demand for larger houses. So maybe thats part of the reason why the outdoor equipment is pushed up against each other, because its all used so rarely anyway.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I feel like playgrounds are busier than when I was a kid but there's less kids out on the street if that makes sense.

    Feels like the kids don't run about by themselves any more. Ir maybe it's the parents driving them everywhere

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 7 months ago

    Oh i get you, yeah that sounds right. Jimmy the Giant just had a show on early 2000's subcultures where he referred to the diminishing of third places for young people to be meaning they don't have their own space to develop as an individual group. He gave the examples of skaters, goths, and parkour.

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