Why achieving a sustainable planet starts with living sustainable lives. Arianna Huffington, Thrive Global Founder & CEO – “In the last few years, two major issues have moved to the center of our collective conversation. One is climate change, and the other is well-being and mental resilience. It’s time we connect the dots and bring the two conversations together. They’re not just both existential threats, they’re also deeply connected: simply put, burned out people are going to continue burning up the planet. It’s clear that the way we live and work is not only burning us out, but causing us to make decisions that are destroying our own health and the health of our planet. The scale of this crisis is staggering. First, the health of the planet:

• The last seven years have been the hottest seven years on record.
• Levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are higher than they’ve been for the last 800,000 years.
• Coming into 2020, the biggest story in the world were the wildfires in Australia, which killed 34 people, burned over 44 million acres of land and killed or displaced an estimated 3 billion animals.
• In 2020, the planet lost 100,000 square miles of tree cover — about the size of Colorado, and nearly 7% more than were lost in 2019.
• 2020 saw the most named storms in the Atlantic ever, and was the worst California wildfire season ever, as was each of the previous 10 years before that…”