Even today, in the face of imminent climate change, we continue to function as though there’s more atmosphere somewhere, ready to whisk off our waste to someplace else. It is time, though, to think of the world as a closed system in which we operate with the full understanding of how one thing will affect the other. For a shining example of how to treat the land we have, we must look to Switzerland, a country that appears as though if it were stuck in time, apart from all the cows flying around.
What the rest of the world can learn from the flying cows of Switzerland
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