![A thriving herd of elephants in Kidepo National Park, Uganda. [Photo: Suzanne York]](http://populationgrowth.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/herd-of-elephants-Kidepo-Natl-Park-150x100.jpg)
By Suzanne York. We humans, in general, pride ourselves on having such ingenious brains, but we’re not always that smart. We live in a society that is using up natural resources at an unsustainable rate – resources upon which our lives depend upon – yet we blithely continue with business as usual. Certainly there are
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Tags: Consumption, nature needs half, poaching, rights of nature, sustainability
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By Suzanne York. One elephant is killed every 15 minutes for its ivory. Perhaps it is appropriate that World Elephant Day (August 12) follows Earth Overshoot Day, the date when humanity exceeds the carrying capacity of the planet. This is because human beings are doing a good job of wiping wild elephants off the face
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Tags: elephants, endangered species, ivory, poaching, Population Growth, rights of nature, Women's empowerment, World Elephant Day