Earth overshoot day : Blockchain can help save the world...
first for the bad news
today is august 2nd and today is the day that we have used up all the renewable resources earth has to offer for this year
so technically we are now living on borrowed time
We use more ecological resources and services than nature can regenerate through overfishing, overharvesting forests, and emitting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than forests can sequester.
there is an organisation monitoring this and they have a really nice website which helps to explain in depth and gives tips to reduce our load on this planet of ours
but what i am getting at is that they have not discovered the blockchain yet...
they are still doing it the "old fashioned" way
and then we move on to our neck of the woods
the blockchain is being used to:
- make the energy grids more efficient (check brooklyn microgrid or power ledger in Australia)
- prevent food wastage (deepnify or even wallmart)
- tracing aid and donations (disberse)
- getting rid of a lot of redundant work through decentralisation of processes
hopefully we can reverse earth overshoot day, last year it was august 8th, this year august 2nd, hopefully we can turn the process back around
so for me the blockchain is not only a nice investment opportunity, it is an (r)evolution that is going to help save the world and i feel really honored that i am being a part of it