Seventy percent.... · The Grow Skool

Seventy percent....

Partha Dasgupta basically walks into the room, looks at humanity’s accounting books, and goes: “Erm… you know you’re running an ecological deficit, right?”

And not like a cute little “we’ll tighten the belt next quarter” deficit.

We’re talking about 70% overshoot. As in: we’re demanding roughly 70% more from nature than Earth can regenerate.

Seventy percent. That’s not “slightly inefficient”. That’s overdrawn, mate. If this were a business, auditors wouldn’t be asking polite questions. They’d be unplugging the printer and escorting us out.

And the wild part? We keep “measuring” nature with spreadsheets and good intentions… then act surprised when the maths doesn’t change. Dasgupta’s whole point is: if nature is the asset base, we’ve been treating it like it’s free, infinite, and somebody else’s problem.

What we’ve been missing is a Nature Ledger: something immutable, verifiable, and live. A system that can prove real stewardship, reward the people doing the work, and diversify balance sheets with utility, not greenwashing.

That’s why GROW exists.

Because if we’re serious about fixing the overshoot, we need to stop debating nature like it’s a vibe and start accounting for it like it’s our future.

Three questions I’d love to hear from you all on:

If we’re truly 70% overdrawn, what are you doing today that you’d never allow in your own bank account?
If nature had a ledger that showed your footprint in real time, would you still be living the same way, or would you finally change the budget?
If your stewardship could be packaged as a tokenised RWA that buyers and lenders can verify instantly, would you use it to unlock cheaper capital, new markets, or a second income stream — and which one matters most right now?

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