We need to reduce our ecological footprint!
Why? Because we are heading towards a catastrophe if we don't.
That is the main message I pcked out of our 3rd lecture.
How are we going to do that? After all, no one wants to give up their current lifestyle.
But if we don't, we severely mess up our future.
Earlier civilisations have collapsed because they had an unsustainable relationship with their environment. I think of the Indus civilisation, the Missisipi civilisation and maybe the ancient Romans. But others were able to create harmony between teirselves and their surrounding environment. You can think of Isphahan, Ancient Egypt, some chinese cities and terrace agriculture in Java. So it is possible to create a balance between development and nature.
We had to prepare ourself for this lecture by looking at the Amazon civilisation and how they used 'terra preta' to feed their population. Again, they found a balance between nature and development and had large villages, full of people, until their civilisation was ruined by european colonisation.
Hmmmmm....So after the discovery of Columbus, the world changed and ultimately the Industrial Revolution began, which was driven by a linear thinking model and now that we ( the whole world) begin to suffer from its effects, we need to develop a cyclic model. Then humanity will find a balance between nature and development and we will be able to decrease our ecological footprint sustainably.
What is this ecological footprint made of? Let's look at the picture undernaeth
(http://wwf.panda.org/_core/general.cfc?method=getOriginalImage&uImgID=%26%2AR%2C%29%20%3EC6%0A)
My own opinion:
So the more you have, the higher your ecological footprint.My own opinion:
The more you use, the higher your ecological footprint.
The more utilities, the higher your ecological footprint.
But if all earth adopts this life style, this system will collapse.
So implementing change is for the sake of our Earth, cause there is no second Earth or escape planet.
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