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The Art and Science of Thinking Ecologically . Tecate Story. Looking at My Shoes and Seeing Nothing There: The Failure of My Education. Wes Jackson. http://www.landinstitute.org.
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Tecate Story Looking at My Shoes and Seeing Nothing There: The Failure of My Education
Wes Jackson http://www.landinstitute.org
Sustainability will result from our becoming better ecological accountants at the community level. We must as a future necessity recycle essentially all materials and run on sunlight; then our future will depend on accounting as the most important and interesting discipline
Sustainability Challenge • Deserts: 6 million hectares per year • Deforestation: 17 million hectares/yr • Soil Oxidation & Erosion: 26billion tons/yr • Fisheries Collapsing • Ground Water Pollution • Species Extinction: Estimates = 17,000species • Increasing Atmospheric Carbon: Over 30%
Our Ecological Footprint An Ecological Accounting Tool Mathis Wackernagel William Rees Phil Testemale
Summary • Current consumption of agricultural products, wood fiber & fossil fuel have an ecological footprint which exceeds ecologically productive land by 30% • We need a 30% larger world, and its shrinking fast
Summary Continued • 20% of the wealthiest use 80% of the resources • This is equivalent to 104% of global carrying capacity
The Design Revolution What is needed is a fundamental revolution, an ecological design revolution that reduces the human impact on the planet by 90%!
The Course Objective To show you the pathways and bodies of knowledge that will make the ecological design revolution happen