1. 24
Tomorrow’s World

2. Overview of Chapter 24 Living Sustainably
Sustainable Living: A Plan of Action
Changing Personal Attitude and Practices
What Kind of World Do We Want?
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3. Living Sustainably Environmental Sustainability
Ability to meet humanity’s current needs without compromising the needs to future generations
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4. Living Sustainably Consumption
Human use of materials and energy
World does not have enough resources to sustain everyone at level enjoyed by US
Countries like China are rapidly catching up (right)
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5. Five Recommendations For Sustainable Living
1. Eliminating poverty and stabilizing the human population
2. Protecting and restoring Earth’s resources
3. Providing adequate food for all people
4. Mitigating climate change
5. Designing sustainable cities
From Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble, Published in 2006 by Lester R. Brown
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6. Recommendation 1 - Eliminating Poverty and Stabilizing Human Population
Improving quality of life in lower-income countries will require increasing economic growth
Must address issues of: health, nutrition and education
Role of women requires attention (right)
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7. Recommendation 1 - Eliminating Poverty and Stabilizing Human Population
Need more trained professionals in developing countries
Debts to poorest countries should be forgiven
Population
Must devote necessary resources to family planning
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8. Recommendation 2 - Protecting and Restoring Earth’s Resources
The world’s forests
Lost for two reasons
Converted to cash
Pressure from rapid population growth and widespread poverty
Need to protect forests
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9. Recommendation 2 - Protecting and Restoring Earth’s Resources
Loss of biodiversity
Need to protect
biodiversity
Food, medicine, clothing
Ecosystem services
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10. Recommendation 2 - Protecting and Restoring Earth’s Resources
Economic development cannot ignore functions of biological and physical systems
Depends on attitudes and practices based on scientific information
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11. Recommendation 3 - Providing Adequate Food For All People
Link between poverty and food insecurity
Agriculture must be improved to achieve more global sustainability
Manage farmlands and grazing lands efficiently (precision farming and IPM)
Reduce loss of soil fertility, erosion, aquifer depletion, etc
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12. Recommendation 4 - Mitigating Climate Change
Human activities are causing the increase in global temperature
Must address climate change in aggressive coordinated fashion
Cannot wait until scientific knowledge is complete- earth is too complex
Stabilizing climate requires a comprehensive energy plan
Phase out of fossil fuels in both developed AND developing countries
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13. Recommendation 4 - Mitigating Climate Change
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14. Recommendation 5 - Designing Sustainable Cities
Almost 50% of world’s population now lives in cities
Need to design sustainable cities
Urban transportation systems
Parks and open spaces
Innovative approaches to handle water scarcity and sewage treatment
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15. Case-In-Point Jakarta, Indonesia
Megacity in a developing country
Badly polluted air
95% of human waste dumped into rivers
2009 Green Hope
Education program
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16. Changing Personal Attitudes and Practices
Consumption overpopulation
Situation where each individual in a population consumes too large a share of resources
Sustainable consumption
Use of goods and services that satisfy basic human needs and improve the quality of life but that minimize the use of resources so they are available for future use
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17. Changing Personal Attitudes and Practices
Role of Education
Accurate information must be made widely available
People’s concerns
for the environment
do not translate into
action
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18. Role of Education
People must be educated to understand the reasons for changing practices
Set up environmental curricula at all school levels
Encourage environmental organizations
Support institutions that promote conservation and sustainability
Encourage inclusion of relevant material in programs of social groups
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19. What Kind of World Do We Want?
Those who live in developed countries are the source of most of the problems facing the global environment
Assumption made that environment will take care of itself
This view needs to be changed radically
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20. What Kind of World Do We Want?
Most critical environmental problem is our own attitudes and values
Your generation must be the next pioneers
Explore a different way for humans to exist in the world
Requires reconnecting with natural environment
Requires revaluing ourselves according to a new set of ideals
What kind of world do you want to live in?
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