We live in a ‘throw-away’ society. Our linear, ‘take-make-waste’ economy is optimized to meet (and create) our wants at the highest level of convenience and affordability. The Industrial Revolution, which marked the beginning of the linear economy, was engineered for increased material throughput for mass production. Extract more to sell more, sell cheaply, sell quickly, and sell to more distant markets. This is no longer viable, ecologically nor economically. The rate of human consumption is currently 1.7x more than what Earth can support. Scientists call this era the Anthropocene: there is nothing ‘natural’ about natural disasters, and climate change is advertently driven by man-made actions.

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