Throughout The Oblique Life Global Goals Season 1, we have partnered with Treepoints, a UK-based social enterprise that helps businesses and individuals offset carbon dioxide. This special episode is an opportunity to learn more about their business, and what they hope to achieve in the long run.

Episode 8 presents the challenges that the food industry must overcome to accommodate the 10 billion human population forecast for 2050, while restoring nature and mitigating climate change.

In episode 7, we probe into the industry challenges, from the over-production, self-regulation and environmental impact to consumer behaviour and greenwashing.

Episode 6 presents the myriad challenges the electronics industry is facing, from design and materials to consumer behaviour, obsolescence and legislation.

Episode 5 takes us through the challenges of the linear economy and the exigency to shift to a new production and consumption paradigm.

Episode 4 explores the role of policy in production and consumption.

Episode 3 takes an introspective approach, focusing on why we, as consumers, are so susceptible to wanting more than we need.

Episode 2 explores production, from materials and design to human resources, energy and extending producer responsibility.

Our first episode investigates how consumerism is causing many of today’s global economic, social and environmental problems, and how individual livelihoods and national economies are driven by it.

Introduction into what The Oblique Life Global Goals is all about.