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?

3. Choose to live sustainably?
Globally, 1 in 4 live in extreme poverty
1 in 7 little access to enough or quality foods
Fairness and equality

4. Living Sustainably Environmental Sustainability
Ability to meet humanity’s current needs without compromising the needs to future generations
Sustainable development
1987 report – Our Common Future (aka Brundtland report)

5. Living Sustainably Consumption
Human use of materials and energy
World does not have enough resources to sustain everyone at level enjoyed by US
Asian countries rapidly catching up

6. Five Recommendations For Sustainable Living
1. Eliminate poverty and stabilize the human population
2. Protect and restore Earth’s resources
3. Provide adequate food for all people
4. Mitigate climate change
5. Design sustainable cities
From Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble, Published in 2006 by Lester R. Brown

7. Recommendation 1 - Eliminating Poverty and Stabilizing Human Population
Eliminate Poverty
Improve 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)

8. Recommendation 1 - Eliminating Poverty and Stabilizing Human Population
Eliminate Poverty
Need more trained professionals in developing countries
Debts to poorest countries should be forgiven
Population
Must devote necessary resources to family planning

9. Recommendation 1 - Eliminating Poverty and Stabilizing Human Population
Microcredit programs
“The poor stay poor, not because they’re lazy but because they have no access to capital.”
Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto
Small loans of $50-$500 dollars to establish self- employment projects that generate income
Examples: sewing machines, refrigerators, chickens

10. 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 forest resources

11. Recommendation 2 - Protecting and Restoring Earth’s Resources
Loss of biodiversity
Need to protect
biodiversity
Food, medicine, clothing
Ecosystem services

12. 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
Connection to cultural diversity

13. 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.

14. Case in Point: PA association for sustainable agricultural
Connects farmers and non- farmers
Agritourism

15. 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

16. Recommendation 4 - Mitigating Climate Change
Comprehensive energy plan

17. Recommendation 5 - Designing Sustainable Cities
~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

18. Case-In-Point: Durban, South Africa
Member of Sustainable Cities Network
Community participation needed
Food gardens in schools
Waste reduction programs
Renewable energy in many homes

19. Changing Personal Attitudes and Practices
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
Needs of survival compared to wants

20. 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

21. Role of Education
People must be educated to understand the reasons for changing practices
Set up environmental curricula at all school levels
Encourage environmental activities and organizations
Support institutions that promote conservation and sustainability
Encourage inclusion of relevant material in programs of social groups

22. 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

23. 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?