the art and science of thinking ecologically
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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. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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
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 WackernagelWilliam Rees
Phil Testemale
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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