Like so many environmental problems caused by our technology, the solution cannot be a technological one. That's just slapping a band-aid on the problem. We need to address the fundamental behaviors causing us to damage our ecosystems rather than trying to fix them after the fact.

Yes. We need to rethink the way we build.

We also need to rethink how to engage with and educate each other for our mutual survival.

There's a problem when villages are split between sand harvesters who sell the sand from rivers, and farmers who can no longer grow crops because there is no water.

There's an unemployment crisis in many parts of the world and if all you have to do in order to get something to eat is to fill up a wheel barrow with river sand, you will do it. Few people can think about the future when they have nothing to eat. And yet, with every spadeful of sand, they, too, add another nail to the coffin of life as we know it. When the rivers run dry, they are the most vulnerable.