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1. 4th Law: “There is no such thing as a free lunch” Everything you do, must have a reason behind it. This law basically means you have to do something in order to get something in return. OR Everything has consequences. For example, a “free” pizza party. In order to win the party, you have to fill out a survey. Survey info gets sold off… you get annoying texts from companies ….you have zero load now….don’t get the message about….
2. “There is no such thing as a free lunch” This ecological law embodies the previous 3 laws. Because the global ecosystem is a connected whole, in which nothing can be gained or lost, anything extracted from it by human effort must be replaced. Payment of this price cannot be avoided; it can only be delayed.
3. “A shocking 45 percent of all land on Earth is today used for raising livestock and growing crops to feed them. But most land used for livestock and crops can grow trees instead. - Robert Goodland, World Bank Group environmental adviser 4th Law: “There is no such thing as a free lunch” Livestock’s carbon footprint ‘catastrophic,’ say climate expertsRead full article… What are the consequences of: Less trees? Less water? More greenhouse gases? World Watch magazine reported that 18 percent of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions attributable to livestock -cattle, buffalo, sheep, goats, camels, pigs and poultry (chicken) and their byproducts actually account for at least 32.6 billion tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year, or 51 percent of annual worldwide GHG emissions It takes about 12,000 liters of water to produce one kg of beef, compared with just 850 liters to produce the same weight of wheat. What are the consequences of: Less trees less oxygen, less biodiversity Less water disease, starvation More greenhouse gases global climate change (severe weather)
4. EXAMPLE #1: Tall smokestacks Tall stacks were originally designed to take local pollutants that resulted from manufacturing processes and put them just high enough into the atmosphere that they would be dispersed away from the local area. The phrase used at the time to describe this process was “The solution to pollution is dilution.”
5. EXAMPLE: Tall smokestacks Over time, however, people in downwind locations complained that they were the victims of pollutants from elsewhere and they reacted politically to have the process stopped. Pollution is not lost (2nd law) Company has to pay for damages & pay for clean-up Cost just delayed by sending pollution somewhere else Hence, there was a call for the enforcement of a “polluter pays” principle: those causing the harm from pollution to others must pay for the cleanup and removal of the pollutants and the repair of their adverse impacts on the built as well as natural environment.
6. EXAMPLES: Things may seem free, but have hidden “costs”. HOW? Oil comes shooting out of the ground. Free phones with a 3 year plan.  Oil comes shooting out of the ground. Free phones with a 3 year plan.  Free samples at grocery stores.  Love.  Admiration.  Respect.