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Earth: The Only Planet which contains …. 4.5 Billion years

A STORY OF A RICH MAN 82 YRS OLD Inheritance, 10 M, Trustee 1 M a day, 9.5 days, Lost it all CALL IT REVENUE, PROFIT ?. Earth: The Only Planet which contains …. 4.5 Billion years. Composed of the delicate mixtures of the basic elements of Life. Air, Water and Soil.

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Earth: The Only Planet which contains …. 4.5 Billion years

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  1. A STORY OF A RICH MAN 82 YRS OLDInheritance, 10 M, Trustee1 M a day, 9.5 days, Lost it all CALL IT REVENUE, PROFIT ?

  2. Earth: The Only Planet which contains …. 4.5 Billion years Composed of the delicate mixtures of the basic elements of Life. Air, Water and Soil

  3. LIFE -600 M Yrs, Man-1 M; Human Civilization – 7-10,000 yrs ago when humans descended from the trees and mountains, and settled in the fertile plains of Sumeria and Mesopotamia

  4. Industrial Rev barely 200 years ago • Significance of IR: Started to use sources of life faster than rate of replenishment)

  5. Cut down trees and wiped out forests, and then called it income, Gross National Product

  6. FISH Catch– 90 to 95%in some, facing total collapseCall it: Revenue, Income

  7. Revenue IncomeProfit, GNP

  8. Revenue; Profit; Progress, Development? DEVELOPMENT BASED ON THE AMOUNT OF ENERGY PRODUCED AND USED AND VOLUME OF WASTE GENERATED? BURNING OF FOSSIL FUELSAir Pollutionand Global Heating Development!

  9. Used, used up, dirtied Waters

  10. Is this the water that my parents and their generation want me to drink?

  11. Environment-Not about birds and bees, Sources of Life Land, Air and Water Vital Organs of LIFE on Earth Trees and forests- Lungs • Land & soil - skin and flesh • Sea and waterways – blood and bloodstreams • 70% of the human body and of the Earth is water

  12. Of this living planet we call home!

  13. Mining: DISEMBOWELED THE EARTH, SCRAPE AWAY LIFE GIVING SOIL AND THROW AWAY WATER >Revenue? PARADOX OF DIAMOND AND WATER > Or Depletion of the natural capital?

  14. Called it income, revenue, and contribution to the GNP; • Rate of Consumption used as model of “progress and development”

  15. “Industrialized” Developed economy?” • CONSUMPTION??? • Highly-consuming Economics efficient use of scarce resources. • “Development based on Extraction and ‘Consumption’ • 5% of people- • 30% of resources) • Need 9 earths to satisfy the consumption patterns • Is Waste Economical? • “Developed Economy” -- contradiction of terms? • Story of grandfather? • False accounting: ENRON? • Story of Wealth and Responsibility

  16. FOLLOWING AND Using that ECONOMIC Mindset of Extraction and Consumption Look what happened to the Philippines • Wealth

  17. Land Area: 30 M ha. Land Classification 50%-50% 60 years ago- 16 M; 1988-800,000

  18. Forest Cover 1999 CEBU IS THE WORSE: FOREST COVER: __%, MOST SEVERELY ERODED, MOST CRITICAL IN WATER SUPPLY, CEBUANO KAINGINEROS CEBU-TRADING CENTER

  19. 70%

  20. The Indo-Malay-Philippine Archipelago (IMPA) – the CENTER OF MARINE WEALTH ON EARTHSulu-Sulawesi Marine Triangle

  21. The “PHILIPPINES IS THE CENTER OF THE CENTER OF MARINE BIODIVERSITY ON EARTH” – Dr. Kent Carpenter/ UN FAO Study AMAZON OF THE SEAS, PHILIPPINE SEA OF THE FORESTS

  22. FROM 3 MILLION

  23. 0.2% INTACT CEBUANOS: BLASTING POWDER, BLASTING CAPS, CYANIDE (MACTAN AND BTYN) Destructive Forms of Fishing

  24. Air pollution 80-90% of air polluton is from cars-motor vehicles 31 Jan 2006, 1002 hrs:

  25. Solid Waste Generation Metro Manila estimated at 8,000 tons per day and expected to double by year 2010

  26. Share of Domestic, Industrial, and Agricultural BOD at the National Level Industrial 15% Domestic 48% Agricultural 37% WATER POLLUTION

  27. Biologically Dead Rivers 16 Rivers are dead Violations of Laws!

  28. AIR POLLUTION TSP levels above the standards by as much as 200% Adverse health impacts

  29. Earth’s FEVER More intense typhoons; Erratic and abnormal weather patterns increased incidence of infectious diseases; coral deaths; droughts, etc, flooding

  30. Stuck to the economic model of extraction, consumption and waste: Inertia of collective Insanity

  31. CRISIS danger opportunity Show our wisdom as a species To Humankind: Extinction of our species

  32. Crisis of LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMSCRISIS OF Paralysis and Inaction • Overwhelmed by the Problem • Looking to leaders who are useless and irrelevant and cannot provide solutions • Inertia of collective insanity

  33. ROLE OF THE LAW • LAW IS NOTHING MORE THAN POLICY DISTILLED IN LEGAL FORM AND LANGUAGE • POLICY – THE WAY WE DO THINGS IN THE WORLD -- IS ONLY A MIRROR IMAGE OF PARADIGM AND PHILOSOPHY – THE WAY WE LOOK AT THE WORLD • IT CAN GUIDE CONDUCT AND SPARK ACTION

  34. CRISIS OF CLIMATE CHANGE to a Climate of Change… opportunity danger ADULTS- a simple signature will make a big differenceShow our wisdom as a species To Humankind: Extinction of our species

  35. Changing Mindset • We cannot solve problems using the same mindset that created them in the first place • Think and Jump out of the Box • Shifting Mindset from THE ECONOMICS OF Consumption to • ECONOMICS OF Conservation, Protection and Restoration (CPR) • NATURAL CAPITALISM, GREEN / ECO-ECONOMICS, SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS • DO NOT USE CAPITAL, • ONLY INTEREST! • PROPER ACCOUNTING!

  36. Energy conservationClean/renewable energy systems CPR ECONOMICSrestorative Economics(eg, Northern Aral Sea Restoring not only the life-support systems but also the connection between man and nature

  37. Sustainable Agri, Urban Greening, Water Recycling

  38. Restore wealth of the Earth’s Skin -- the soils- source of or food!Agricultural lands- Contour-SALT Banaue rice terraces: < 2000 years old

  39. Other Economic Activities • Shifting mindsets • Man is more than matter • Basics: Security, Health, Food, (Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs) … (Happiness indicators – level of criminality, food security, etc. …intellectual, emotional, and spiritual fulfillment

  40. Three Sources of Genuine Happiness • Social Relations • -- family and friends • Work (fulfillment –8 hrs/day) • (“Happy is the man who loves his work for he will never again have to work another day in his life”) • Leisure: Hobbies, Sports, Other Skills (Music, etc.)

  41. Living Examples! Costa Rica, Curitiba, Brazil, Bhutan, Puerto Princesa, Apo Island, Sagay Marine Reserve (32,000 ha) , etc. many more! (Marikina, Sta Barbara, Iloilo, Bgy in QC, etc). We need to know them. Humans learn by imitation

  42. TIME FOR ACTION

  43. Three Solutions MULTI-SCALAR • Personal Lifestyle Change • Political Will • Appropriate Technology • Caught in paralysis of inaction

  44. WHAT: A GLOBAL MOVEMENT TO CREATE CLIMATE OF CHANGE • TO EACH HIS/HER OWN CAPABILITY • WE LAWYERS -- USING THE LAW AS ONE OF THE TOOLS TO SPARK CHANGE • GLOBAL LEGAL ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE –

  45. GLOBAL MOVEMENTGLOBAL LEGAL ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE • LEGAL – BASED ON INTERNATIONAL LAW PRINCIPLES (AND THE UNFCCC) • ALSO BASED ON THE HIGHEST LAW- THE LAW OF NATURE – THE RIGHT AND INSTINCT OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND SELF PERPETUATION

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