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Chapter 25
Tomorrow’s World
Overview of Chapter 25
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Living Sustainably
Sustainable Living: A Plan of Action
Changing Personal Attitude and Practices
What Kind of World Do We Want?
Living Sustainably
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Environmental
Sustainability
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Ability to meet
humanity’s current
needs without
compromising the
needs to future
generations
Living Sustainably
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Consumption
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Human use of materials
and energy
People in highly developed
countries are extravagant
World does not have
enough resources to
sustain everyone at level
enjoyed by US
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Countries like China are
rapidly catching up (right)
Sustainable Living: A Plan of Action
Recommendation 1 - Eliminating Poverty and Stabilizing
Human Population
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Eliminating Poverty
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Improving quality of life in
lower-income countries will
require increasing
economic growth
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Must address issues of:
health, nutrition and
education
Role of women requires
attention (right)
Sustainable Living: A Plan of Action
Recommendation 1 - Eliminating Poverty and Stabilizing
Human Population
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Eliminating Poverty
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Need more trained professionals in developing
countries
Debts to poorest countries should be forgiven
Stabilizing Human
Population
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Must devote
necessary resources
to family planning
Sustainable Living: A Plan of Action
Recommendation 2 - Protecting and Restoring Earth’s
Resources
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The world’s forests
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Lost for two reasons
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Converted to cash
Pressure from rapid population growth and widespread
poverty
Need to protect forests
Loss of biodiversity
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Need to protect
biodiversity
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Food, medicine, clothing
Ecosystem services
Sustainable Living: A Plan of Action
Recommendation 2 - Protecting and Restoring Earth’s
Resources
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Protecting and Restoring Earth’s
Resources
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Economic development cannot ignore functions
of biological and physical systems
Depends on attitudes and practices based on
scientific information
Sustainable Living: A Plan of Action
Recommendation 3 - Providing Adequate Food For All
People
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Link between poverty and
food insecurity
Agriculture must be improved
to achieve more global
sustainability
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Manage farmlands and grazing
lands efficiently
Reduce loss of soil fertility,
erosion, aquifer depletion, water
pollution and air pollution
Institute precision farming and
IPM
Sustainable Living: A Plan of Action
Recommendation 4 - Mitigating Climate Change
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Human activities are causing the increase
in global temperature
Must address climate change in aggressive
coordinated fashion
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Cannot wait until scientific knowledge is
complete- earth is too complex
Stabilizing climate requires a
comprehensive energy plan
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Phase out of fossil fuels in both developed
AND developing countries
Sustainable Living: A Plan of Action
Recommendation 4 - Mitigating Climate Change
Sustainable Living: A Plan of Action
Recommendation 5 - Designing Sustainable Cities
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Almost 50% of world’s population now lives
in cities
Need to design sustainable cities
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Urban transportation systems
Parks and open spaces
Innovative approaches
to handle water
scarcity and sewage
treatment
Case-In-Point Jakarta, Indonesia
Changing Personal Attitudes and
Practices
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Consumption overpopulation
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Situation where each individual in a population
consumes too large a share of resources
Changing Personal Attitudes and
Practices
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Sustainable consumption
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Use of goods and services that satisfy basic
human needs and improve the quality of life
but that minimize the use of resources so they
are available for future use
Not popular with policy maker, politicians or
consumers
Changing Personal Attitudes and
Practices
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Role of Education
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Peoples concerns for the environment do not
translate into action
People must be educated to understand the
reasons for changing practices
(1) set up environmental curricula at all school
levels
(2) encourage environmental organizations
(3) support institutions that promote
conservation and sustainability
(4) encourage inclusion of relevant material in
programs of social groups
What Kind of World Do We Want
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Those who live in
developed countries
are the source of
most of the problems
facing the global
environment
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Assumption made that
environment will take
care of itself
This view needs to be
changed radically
What Kind of World Do We Want?
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Most critical environmental problem is our
own attitudes and values
Your generation must be the next pioneers
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Explore a different way for humans to exist in
the world
Requires reconnecting with natural
environment
Requires revaluing ourselves according to a new
set of ideals
What kind of world do you want to live in?