Transcript Amazon Sustainability

Sustainability
in the
Amazon
ECUADOR
ECUADOR
ECUADOR
PASTAZA
PROVINCE
ZÁPARA NATIONALITY
THE ZAPARA
THE ZAPARA
CHALLENGES:
 ASSIMILATION
 OUT-MIGRATION
 ENVIRONMENTAL
POLLUTION
Zápara Speakers:
Less than 10, all over 65 years old.
•Increased rural-to-urban
migration
•Growing urban poverty in
Amazon
•Disease, Prostitution,
Drug abuse
Boom Towns
Oil Extraction
Ecuador: 505 barrels per day (214
to the US)*
Oil = Largest Export (20-25% of
GDP)
Big polluter: 1968-1992: ca. 35
million gallons spilled (1700 sq.mil.
contaminated)^
*CIA Factbook
^Sawyer 1997
Photo: Moises Saman
COMMUNITY RESPONSE
 ORGANIZATION
 NETWORKING
 EDUCATION
 TERRITORY
GLOBAL IDEAS,
CHALLENGES
• ECOLOGICAL
DEBT
• PAY-TO-PRESERVE
•LEGAL ACTIONS
"Sustainability is not about business as usual; it
should not be confused with incremental
technical approaches to managing the status
quo more efficiently nor with the “greening” of
consumerism. It is a question of culture: of
our sense of meaning and purpose as
Americans and as human beings. As citizens
of the Earth system and citizens of the world,
we have inherited a culture that is ours to
interpret and bequeath to future generations.
Sustainability requires us to critically examine
our cultural choices in light of the myriad
interactions of art, science, politics and
economics, not simply to study them in
isolation.”
Tom Kelly, University of New Hampshire Chief Sustainability
Officer