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Biodiversity loss - Doing the Doughnut Tech

Biodiversity loss

Ensuring an abundance of varities of animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms like bacteria that make up our natural world.

A global overview

A decline in the number and variety of living species damages the integrity of ecosystems and accelerates species extinction. In doing so it increases the risk of abrupt and irreversible changes to ecosystems, reducing their resilience and undermining their capacity to provide food, fuel and fibre, and to sustain life.

How is digital tech relevant to biodiversity loss?

Areas of tension

These are the issues, negative impacts and concerns collectively raised by the attendees from our pilot workshops.

For the global population
  • The need for raw materials to manufacture and run digital tech contributes to habitat loss through land conversion.

How can we nudge these tensions for the better?

Grounds for hope

These are visions and ideas for change collectively raised by the attendees from our pilot workshops.

For the global population

  • Educate people about how biodiversity affects our wellbeing.
  • Break the traditional 3 year hardware replacement cycle for technology- to restrict future mining and to utilise critical resources to when most needed.
  • Devices that last much longer and are designed to disassemble.

Keen to learn more?

If you’d like to explore these issues yourself, either as an individual or with your work colleagues, why not run your own workshop?

Our workshop methodology is open source and available for anyone to use for free. Alternatively you can hire trusted professionals to facilitate the process on your behalf.