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A Mobilizacao da Sociedade para o Desenvolvimento Sustentavel

A Mobilizacao da Sociedade para o Desenvolvimento Sustentavel. Ian Lowe. “ Our present course is unsustainable - postponing action is no longer an option” - GEO 2000 [UNEP 1999]. How could we create unsustainable futures ?. Rapid population growth

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A Mobilizacao da Sociedade para o Desenvolvimento Sustentavel

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  1. A Mobilizacao da Sociedade para o Desenvolvimento Sustentavel Ian Lowe

  2. “Our present course is unsustainable - postponing action is no longer an option”-GEO 2000 [UNEP 1999]

  3. How could we create unsustainable futures ? • Rapid population growth • Growing consumption per person • Deplete mineral resources, e.g. Oil • Over-use fisheries, forests, water • Disrupt global climate, lose diversity • Base economy on materials use • Widen inequality • Embrace materialism

  4. Poverty, inequality growing • 1.1 billion people have < $1 per day, 70% in rural areas • Inequality increased over past decade • 1.1 billion people don’t have clean water supply, > 2.6 billion lack sanitation Millennium Assessment Report 2005

  5. Limits to Growth + 30 years data On all key parameters [population, resource use, industrial output, agricultural production and Pollution] we are tracking the “standard run” which leads to economic and ecological collapse before 2050.

  6. Significant social change • Smoking • Road safety • Plastic bags • Water use • Berlin Wall • Apartheid

  7. Change requires: • Discontent • Vision of better future • Pathway [s] forward • Commitment • Top-down: $, regulation, education • Bottom-up: real change

  8. Economic futures • Economic development must be within the sustainable productivity of natural systems • Therefore there must be massive reductions in resource use in wealthy areas • “live simply so others may simply live” • UNDP calculation

  9. Change requires: Discontent Vision of better future Pathway [s] forward Commitment Top-down: $, regulation, education Bottom-up: real change

  10. Sustainable community will: • Have stabilised population & footprint • Use resources sustainably to produce a dynamic, flexible economy • Be approaching a zero waste society • Have very low carbon emissions • Require developments biodiversity +ve • Be committed to improving equality • Therefore serious TBL assessments • Process for difficult decisions

  11. New suite of values • Domination of nature becomes ecological sensitivity • Consumerism replaced by quality of life • Individualism -> human solidarity

  12. Vision for a Sustainable City

  13. S O C I E TY E N V I R T E C O N O M Y

  14. S O C I E T Y E C O N O M Y E C O L O G Y

  15. Utopian? • 1800: end slavery • 1900: votes for women • 1988: Berlin Wall South Africa without apartheid lap-tops, mobile phones African-American as US President WEF calling for integrated response • Practically all features of modern life

  16. Conclusion • Sustainability involves resources, social, economic, environmental issues • Sustainable futures require a new approach • A better party • Changes driven by community • Globo sapiens

  17. Globo sapiens • Sensitive to other ways of knowing • Globally conscious • Trans-generational thinker • Courageous • Able to contemplate changes to our current way of life • Working toward healthier futures

  18. Nous ferons changer le monde ! Si ce n’est pas toi, mon petit, qui commencera changer le monde ? Qui le fera ?

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