A Mobilizacao da Sociedade para o Desenvolvimento Sustentavel

1. A Mobilizacao da Sociedade para o Desenvolvimento Sustentavel Ian Lowe

2. “Our present course is unsustainable - postponing action is no longer an option”-GEO 2000 [UNEP 1999]

4. How could we create unsustainable futures ? • Rapid population growth • Growing consumption per person • Deplete mineral resources, e.g. Oil • Over-use fisheries, forests, water • Disrupt global climate, lose diversity • Base economy on materials use • Widen inequality • Embrace materialism

6. Poverty, inequality growing • 1.1 billion people have < $1 per day, 70% in rural areas • Inequality increased over past decade • 1.1 billion people don’t have clean water supply, > 2.6 billion lack sanitation Millennium Assessment Report 2005

7. Limits to Growth + 30 years data On all key parameters [population, resource use, industrial output, agricultural production and Pollution] we are tracking the “standard run” which leads to economic and ecological collapse before 2050.

8. Significant social change • Smoking • Road safety • Plastic bags • Water use • Berlin Wall • Apartheid

9. Change requires: • Discontent • Vision of better future • Pathway [s] forward • Commitment • Top-down: $, regulation, education • Bottom-up: real change

10. Economic futures • Economic development must be within the sustainable productivity of natural systems • Therefore there must be massive reductions in resource use in wealthy areas • “live simply so others may simply live” • UNDP calculation

11. Change requires: Discontent Vision of better future Pathway [s] forward Commitment Top-down: $, regulation, education Bottom-up: real change

12. Sustainable community will: • Have stabilised population & footprint • Use resources sustainably to produce a dynamic, flexible economy • Be approaching a zero waste society • Have very low carbon emissions • Require developments biodiversity +ve • Be committed to improving equality • Therefore serious TBL assessments • Process for difficult decisions

13. New suite of values • Domination of nature becomes ecological sensitivity • Consumerism replaced by quality of life • Individualism -> human solidarity

14. Vision for a Sustainable City

15. S O C I E TY E N V I R T E C O N O M Y

17. S O C I E T Y E C O N O M Y E C O L O G Y

18. Utopian? • 1800: end slavery • 1900: votes for women • 1988: Berlin Wall South Africa without apartheid lap-tops, mobile phones African-American as US President WEF calling for integrated response • Practically all features of modern life

19. Conclusion • Sustainability involves resources, social, economic, environmental issues • Sustainable futures require a new approach • A better party • Changes driven by community • Globo sapiens

20. Globo sapiens • Sensitive to other ways of knowing • Globally conscious • Trans-generational thinker • Courageous • Able to contemplate changes to our current way of life • Working toward healthier futures

21. Nous ferons changer le monde ! Si ce n’est pas toi, mon petit, qui commencera changer le monde ? Qui le fera ?