The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio +20, is being held in Rio de Janeiro (13 to 22 June 2012).
According to specialists, participation has been more expressive than Rio-92, however, the absence of remarkble leaders from US, UK and Germany has been viewed with suspicion by the public.
Developing countries want the richest help with funding for growth and environmental preservation.
It would need six times the current agricultural lands for the US model of development to spread to the rest of the world. This is a problem from themselves, as they cannot change this lifestyle after decades of being stimulated to consume to be happy.
What are the alternatives to reach a sustainable life for all countries without risking the future of the planet?
In one episode of "Yes Prime Minister " the "PM" was only interested about the first pages on the press and probably tv news openings. I think would be interesting to count how many first pages Rio had on all countries of the world, to observe the press awarness, public opinion it is another thing, probably even worth. I think it is easier and much more exciting for a journalist to go to Rio to make a report about the Carnival or about the Formula 1. Now it is winter time, there are good prices to go on holiday to Canarias , Greece, Portugal , Turkey....
If a British citizen was missed or another thing of the same popularity, futebol for instance, it would be different. Today , The Times has this title in a small font " Rio Summit - Weak and ineffectual result"
There you are the list of the last top 50 new in the "Times" , think it still is one newpaper of reference, but about Rio, we will find something on the 47place.
1
7 June 2012 12:01 AM
Euro 2012: your guide to England
2
23 June 2012 2:39 PM
David Bailey’s East End
3
23 June 2012 10:01 AM
Flooding forces people from homes
4
23 June 2012 12:03 AM
The 38-year tax backlog at the Inland Revenue
5
23 June 2012 12:03 AM
The British Museum looks at us and our money
6
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
Death of Roberto Calvi haunts Vatican
7
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
A tycoon, diamonds and ‘$100m for Mugabe’
8
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
Turkish jet shot down on Syrian border
9
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
Care homes suffer huge rise in complaints
10
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
Cash pours in for victim of bus bullies
11
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
Greening signals her opposition to runway
12
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
England expects little, but we’ll still be watching
13
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
30 great castles
14
21 June 2012 12:01 AM
The Liz Taylor and Richard Burton of opera
15
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
The summer workout: the eight exercises every man should do
16
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
The three Shakespeare kings hit TV
17
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
Miliband under fire for new line on immigration
18
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
NatWest open over weekend after technical fault
19
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
Murray must gun down big men
20
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
‘Don’t waste your life looking after me’
21
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
West End stores braced for the Ramadan Rush
22
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
Accountant accused of espionage by bank
23
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
Album cover star could sue Placebo
24
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
Sony looks to Olympus to take bigger share in medical market
25
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
The city view: Moody’s is just catching up
26
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
‘Tax planning is legitimate but do the right thing’
27
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
Why did the comedian cross the line?
28
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
Tear down Europe’s wall of mutual mistrust
29
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
Hitchcock’s debut - of murder and madness
30
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
Sex counsel: Will anyone want sex with me?
31
23 June 2012 12:00 AM
Lancaster wants to end tour on a high
32
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
Chinese politician’s wife ‘confesses’ to killing Briton
33
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
Rain turns festival into a mudbath
34
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
Thousands return to Tahrir in protest
35
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
Syrian Olympic chief refused visa
36
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
September date set for Rebekah Brooks plea
37
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
McGuinness and Queen handshake
38
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
Atom power law raises fears of a Tokyo bomb
39
23 June 2012 12:00 AM
Germany 4 Greece 2: Germans throw Greece out
40
23 June 2012 12:00 AM
Troubled AirTanker project flies to Spain
41
23 June 2012 12:00 AM
Plans dashed for wind turbine plant in Kent
42
23 June 2012 12:00 AM
Iceland hits record profits by ‘doing the right things’
43
23 June 2012 12:00 AM
Water bills ‘must be cut for poorest customers’
44
23 June 2012 12:00 AM
Prospect of penalties leaves Buffon shaking
45
23 June 2012 12:00 AM
Win or lose, untouchable Roy will have a soft landing
46
23 June 2012 12:00 AM
Hodgson confident England can change history
47
22 June 2012 7:58 PM
Delete Mother Earth: Moulding the Rio+20 text
48
23 June 2012 12:00 AM
Squabbles in French camp as Nasri attacked
49
22 June 2012 6:08 PM
George Caulkin’s Euro 2012 audio diary: part 26
50
23 June 2012 12:00 AM
ECB bans Kaneria for life over corruption
Sorry to annoying you with this enormous text, but it gives us, the relativity, How thing are here in UK, half way to the North Pole.
I say ,switch to organic agricultural farming techniques partnered with strong foundation of humanized development.
Every one needs to understand its implication. There is no single word answer. I am not sure whether sustainability is possible. But I am sure that trying to reach there has to be a combination of various kinds of efforts by every citizen.
Sustainability, must be possible, has to be implemented and it is inevitable. It must start in our bin collector, and goes strait to our car, that should be of H, power, alcohol , whatever , everything but petrol, and all other subjects in life, like working hours, taxes, consumption , money and banking, etc... etc...
About the proposition of Airton Luna, to play the game we must think on those players that we have, if USA, UK and Germany are not there, it is not the end, we are not discussing atomic weapons, for God sake,. We are discussing the future of the mankind the game must start without them, they will come, it is guaranted they are like capitalists they love to buy a company when it is already working properly making lots of profits, then they take over and control the game, Now we must thing that there are others very important players too.
If for instance Ronaldinho does not want to play, Hulk is happy to take the chance and he is good too, ( I'm a Porto fan), here in UK we have this motto, when there's a will there's a way, but in Portuguese you know a better one, Vale mais quem quer do que quem pode.
The calendar of the Rio was not thought considering the political cycles of USA and Germany, it was an organization fail don't you think? They only had to consider the political calendar of USA, UK, Germany, Japan, and France. It wasn't so difficult... Brazil and India are "guaranted" and China is exempt of this cycles isn't it?
I think the worst problem with the US model is that it exports land speculation, as the price of the land goes up, the up front cost of any form of production goes up, leaving less of the population capable of paying the freight, eventually land prices get so high, only corporate clients can afford properties large enough to produce, and the size of the property needed to produce is so much higher because of the cost of the land, that smaller more sustainable land practices are squeezed out.
Land speculation is unsustainable, how will we deal with it?
What do we do about past speculation, and the increased cost of land?
The time has come to change our production models, there is a new wave that must reign over us despite politicians and economic interests. We must figure in mind that the future of new generations depends on what we decide now. Sustainability must be the planet´s path. Scientists and environmentalists must convince politicians and people in general this the way it has to be, this is the challenge: science in practice, no more bla bla bla, no more papers saying nothing. Sustainability or death,
Friends, I have gone through the views shared by esteemed members. I agree to many of their views. As an anthropologist from India let me share some of the views placed basically from the perspective of human society and development as sustainable. It is true that people of USA and many European counties are unable to compromise with a new way of life which will be more friedly to the sustenance of their future generation.Ealier it was suggested that these (USA, U.K., Germany, etc) developed countires should bear the burden of investment to improve the climatic condition of the world. Now it is time to say that there is no way out than changing our mode of living. If not it is just like creating problem and giving partial solution. The people of these countries need to think again and again about the plight and poverty of the people living in many parts of this world. The nation and culture specific development must be sustainable human development beyond region, religion, culture, language and economy. It is time they to realise the nature of development and its relation with human society.
Dr.Nilakantha Panigrahi
Social Anthropologist, NKC Center for Development Stuidies (ICSSR Center), Bhubaneswar-Odisha-India
Dear friends, nothing would change for better, never mind Rio+20 or even +30 take place, unless establishment of
World (Earth) community of Earth citizens - Earth CIVILIZATION, educated & certified, would start.
See details at - http://wpf.unesco-tlee.org/eng/wcitiz.htm
According to Nilakantha Panigrahi and Igor Kondrashin I understood that a new World order should take place. Do you think a establishment of World community of Earth citizens has chance to be seeded? It would be feasible front of nowadays cultural and religious intolerance? If it would be possible, this in nothing changes the idea that an equalizing of the richness of the World leads to a sustainable life.
According to Jose Fernandes, the Rio +20 calendar was scheduled without consider the political calendar of USA, UK, Germany, Japan, and France. This can be true in part. The United States, struggling with their presidential election,has been opposed to any action which may inhibit their growth effort guided by the current development model. Looking to the link pointed by Igor Kondrashin, we can see the cultural and demographic distribution of people around the World. Thus, If Europe and the U.S. together consume about 80% of goods produced on the planet, discussing new patterns of global production and consumption without their engagement is a hard task. But in fact they are not the only ones who are trying to circumvent the central issue. Countries like the BRICs are also not so interested in going deep into the analysis of the causes because implementing environmental technologies use to be more expensive and depends on the transfer of industrial property, etc. Some economists speak of the possibility of a "green capitalism" that combines the logic of profit with environmental preservation, i.e, they seek to make environmental preservation a source of profit.
A new World order based on an establishment of modern World community of Earth-XXI citizens would equalize first of all the mentality of peoples all over the planet which is now so different that nobody can understand in fact and specify what a true Human Being of nowadays means, what his brain parameters and level of conciseness and mind are, what set of knowledge he should posses. All these data are described at - http://wpf.unesco-tlee.org/eng/wcitiz.htm
I dislike the term New World Order, if only because it has been coopted by the fascists. Think about it, if everyone thinks the same way, they are Uber Controlled... Not sustainable in my opinion.
Thanks for asking this question in this forum.
How can we address imbalances created by entrenched consumption patterns of the rich?
I share Graeme's concern with the world order thinking, yet I belief that the balancing of three orders should be pursued:
- the natural order,
- the social order, and
- the techno order.
These three distinct orders are described at http://www.ens-dictionary.info/mr-item-overview
In discussions about principles and strategies for sustainable economy (at https://undp.unteamworks.org/ ) the linkage between these orders and options for change have been explained, for instance it is impossible to change the laws of nature, yet social norms can be adapted following institutional analysis and design (remind the work of the late Nobel Laureate Prof. Elinor Ostrom, ref. http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/green-from-the-grassroots )
I can recommend the discussions at the UNDP teamworks site for further elaborating these topics.
I am grateful for the collegues' apports. I have never heard that the expression "World Order" would have been used by fascists. This one appeared in my mind when I was reading the first text written by Igor Kondrashin. I remembered a song of Caetano Veloso in which the lyrics speaks about several things that the author sees as being out of order, out of a New Word order. The song is metaphoric and demands a certain cultural knowledge about the things in Brasil, but I copied below a short part of it to incite the curiously:
" Eu não espero pelo dia
Em que todos
Os homens concordem
Apenas sei de diversas
Harmonias bonitas
Possíveis sem juízo final..."
Thanks for sharing this text.
Here the translation produced by Google translate http://translate.google.com/
(Portuguese to English, between brackets what I added):
I can not wait for the day
In (which) all
The men agree
I only know of several
beautiful harmonies
Possible without judgment ... "
My opinion is that each culture (and language) is such a beautiful harmony. This creates a challenge of delivery of RIO+20 results globally as indicated by Greenberg's language diversity index.
Rio+20 is an event of global civilization.
However, negotiators who believe in one-size-fits all solutions (and dominance of one culture over another) are most probably ill-guided.
A discussion on the question ''Who should run the global economy'' (following the recent UNCTAD conference (http://lnkd.in/uB-y6h ) explores further one form the ''one-size-fits all'' attitude could take: letting monetary thinking dominate anything else.
One reason why this is irresponsible is that monetary order is part of the social order: it is socially constructed, and therefore it can be re-engineered (with institution analysis and design offering techniques for doing this...).
With natural resources we do not have such options...
http://www.indicator-dictionary.info/indicator:greenberg-s-language-diversity-index
Goosenaerts:"With natural resources we do not have such options"
Here in Canada, the Government seems bound and determined that any issues related to natural resources, ARE socially constructed and therefore can be re-engineered, even against international agreements by the previous administration. If they can, they will legistlate Canada 25 years backwards in sensitivity to the environment, and THEN convince everyone that we will be having more long-term prosperity as a result. Considering that prosperity is a world problem, I doubt they will succeed.
The last thing I'd want to do is seem cynical. But, let's be fair, the Earth Summit hasn't been a great success and, if it's true that past performance is the best indicator of future behaviour, then keep expectations of Rio+20 very low and you won't be disappointed. I aver that capitalism and dealing with climate change are mutually exclusive, and so we'll need a technological solution. Civil society is weak and helpless: witness Copenhagen and the NGOs' establishment of a parallel conference when they were roundly ignored by those sitting at the top table.
So everybody is agree that Greedy capitalism , unnecessary industrialization, improper use of energy are the real challenge to solve if we want to create sustainable world .............i lll end with one of the my favorite quotes and poem----------1. Treat money as if it were the dirt below your feet. Because when dirt comes over your head, it becomes your grave
2. There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more (Lord George Gordon Byron)
Poems have the power of being synthetic and precise. It is like a picture of a situation where each detail shows multiples coloured reliefs.
It is clear that, education has raised the intellectual capabilities and social expectations of many worldwide, and that didn’t reflects positively on the mentality of economical dominant power. Resultant of that has widen the gap between countries and among populations within a country. While limitation of essential resources exacerbate the situation, which in turn reduced the level of Humanity among some policy makers in industrial countries.
I view these and failure of both 1992 Earth Summit and the Copenhagen talks in 2009 as an extreme tendency for success by some industrial leaders, who are in illusion of serving their constituencies.
My dear, I can say unfortunately because I follow fairly closely, and now twenty years ago, what really is happening is just "intentions," good intentions, but when it really will change is when people around the world have global awareness of their own consumption, because this is the spring that moves companies and governments, because what really changed after Rio 92, was in practice what the market demanded of companies because we have technology, some companies will have until the what is missing is governments, corporations and civil society have the same goal for change to occur.
Saying that governments, corporations and civil societies have to have the same goal for change, is like saying that the tail wags the dog. It may seem that this can happen, but the physics are all wrong.
What Civil Societies need, is an alternative banking system that does not respond as much to corporations and government agendas as it does to social agendas. As long as banks are controlled by governments and corporations, and civil societies must depend on them, the banks will determine the priorities, and civil societies will be left in the lurch.
Social Banking may not be the solution, but it will go a long way to giving the Civil Societies leverage to change the world in competition to government and commercial agendas.
What is a good "Social Margin", in other words what should a business invest back into the community to be "Socially Responsible"? Most banks would fail such a test. A Social Banking System would test the social margin in addition to the ROI on the money, and would favor businesses, social organizations, and so on, with higher social margins in much the same way that banks today favor businesses and organizations with higher profit margins. It is not that the businesses do not need a ROI, but that they also need a ROS or return on Social Capital. Banking based on social capital would not be as dependent on the honesty of sales people, so much as the honesty of the social businesses they depend on.
Substitute strong strategic capacity and responsiveness to evidence (on threats to mankind's survival)
for
'''society'' (=civil society+government+corporations) having the same goal.
The current draft text of the Rio declaration doesn't show the strategic capacity, nor the responsiveness.
Take for example its key chapter on finance.
At http://www.actor-atlas.info/article:fww-253 I ask a question: Tax Justice or Sweetened Charity - What is the priority?
To appreciate the question, consider that the United Kingdom's Prince William and Prime Minister David Cameron were educated in schools that have charity status (The Economist, http://www.economist.com/node/21556570 ), while on the other hand In 2006, mineral exports from Dem. Rep. Congo totalled $1billion, yet the country received just $86,000 mineral-related revenue ( http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2012/0227/1224312439545.html )
Weak strategic capacity go together with selective interest in evidence. I call these the pretext vulnerabilities in the societal discourse.
What can we do about this?
My (hypothetic with some strength) answer to this question is explained in a methodology text at http://www.wikiworx.info/crb-methodology
This answer has been the driver for piloting the wikiworx platform.
I invite all to give comments and connect evidence to the draft Rio+20 declaration chapters at http://www.actor-atlas.info/global-resource:et-future-we-want-draft
The conference have finished being criticized from all sides. Several social segments expressed insatisfaction with the final text.
During these days, Rio de Janeiro was the focus of many protests, which were not shown by the local media, as should have been done.
Lack of convergence of interests was attributed to weakness of the final draft text for the sustainability conference.
The brazilian diplomacy tried to ensure a clean draft for the leaders, which became in an intention letter. Concrete actions weren't scheduled for no bother governments and corporations, which are in some extend oil-dependent. According to some reports, the actions were delayed for three years.
In one episode of "Yes Prime Minister " the "PM" was only interested about the first pages on the press and probably tv news openings. I think would be interesting to count how many first pages Rio had on all countries of the world, to observe the press awarness, public opinion it is another thing, probably even worth. I think it is easier and much more exciting for a journalist to go to Rio to make a report about the Carnival or about the Formula 1. Now it is winter time, there are good prices to go on holiday to Canarias , Greece, Portugal , Turkey....
If a British citizen was missed or another thing of the same popularity, futebol for instance, it would be different. Today , The Times has this title in a small font " Rio Summit - Weak and ineffectual result"
There you are the list of the last top 50 new in the "Times" , think it still is one newpaper of reference, but about Rio, we will find something on the 47place.
1
7 June 2012 12:01 AM
Euro 2012: your guide to England
2
23 June 2012 2:39 PM
David Bailey’s East End
3
23 June 2012 10:01 AM
Flooding forces people from homes
4
23 June 2012 12:03 AM
The 38-year tax backlog at the Inland Revenue
5
23 June 2012 12:03 AM
The British Museum looks at us and our money
6
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
Death of Roberto Calvi haunts Vatican
7
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
A tycoon, diamonds and ‘$100m for Mugabe’
8
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
Turkish jet shot down on Syrian border
9
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
Care homes suffer huge rise in complaints
10
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
Cash pours in for victim of bus bullies
11
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
Greening signals her opposition to runway
12
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
England expects little, but we’ll still be watching
13
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
30 great castles
14
21 June 2012 12:01 AM
The Liz Taylor and Richard Burton of opera
15
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
The summer workout: the eight exercises every man should do
16
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
The three Shakespeare kings hit TV
17
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
Miliband under fire for new line on immigration
18
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
NatWest open over weekend after technical fault
19
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
Murray must gun down big men
20
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
‘Don’t waste your life looking after me’
21
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
West End stores braced for the Ramadan Rush
22
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
Accountant accused of espionage by bank
23
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
Album cover star could sue Placebo
24
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
Sony looks to Olympus to take bigger share in medical market
25
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
The city view: Moody’s is just catching up
26
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
‘Tax planning is legitimate but do the right thing’
27
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
Why did the comedian cross the line?
28
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
Tear down Europe’s wall of mutual mistrust
29
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
Hitchcock’s debut - of murder and madness
30
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
Sex counsel: Will anyone want sex with me?
31
23 June 2012 12:00 AM
Lancaster wants to end tour on a high
32
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
Chinese politician’s wife ‘confesses’ to killing Briton
33
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
Rain turns festival into a mudbath
34
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
Thousands return to Tahrir in protest
35
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
Syrian Olympic chief refused visa
36
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
September date set for Rebekah Brooks plea
37
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
McGuinness and Queen handshake
38
23 June 2012 12:01 AM
Atom power law raises fears of a Tokyo bomb
39
23 June 2012 12:00 AM
Germany 4 Greece 2: Germans throw Greece out
40
23 June 2012 12:00 AM
Troubled AirTanker project flies to Spain
41
23 June 2012 12:00 AM
Plans dashed for wind turbine plant in Kent
42
23 June 2012 12:00 AM
Iceland hits record profits by ‘doing the right things’
43
23 June 2012 12:00 AM
Water bills ‘must be cut for poorest customers’
44
23 June 2012 12:00 AM
Prospect of penalties leaves Buffon shaking
45
23 June 2012 12:00 AM
Win or lose, untouchable Roy will have a soft landing
46
23 June 2012 12:00 AM
Hodgson confident England can change history
47
22 June 2012 7:58 PM
Delete Mother Earth: Moulding the Rio+20 text
48
23 June 2012 12:00 AM
Squabbles in French camp as Nasri attacked
49
22 June 2012 6:08 PM
George Caulkin’s Euro 2012 audio diary: part 26
50
23 June 2012 12:00 AM
ECB bans Kaneria for life over corruption
Sorry to annoying you with this enormous text, but it gives us, the relativity, How thing are here in UK, half way to the North Pole.
I think all these conferences showed the importance of the civil societies, as partly mentioned by Fernando. But CSs without financial backing as Graeme put it is toothless. I think CSs can play great role by creating awareness while carrying out ambition programs by moving from status of lobby group to policy maker by initiating ambition programs, such as backing ideas aiming at resolving future energy crises, among others.
A good text to be read: http://tribune.com.pk/story/398597/rio20-and-what-it-means-for-us/#comment-772131
How could the planet be sustainable with this rate of population increase? http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tDgH1CQklsg/S-b4Ah_rslI/AAAAAAAAACc/FZUVux80TLw/s1600/worldpop.gif
This is a very sensitive question, once the option for a fertility control is often viewed as a facist proposal.
In my opinion, if the educational level is getting better the polulational growing tend to decrease. As lower acess to education, higher tend to be size of the family. You can see by means of the following links that several countries have diminuished its fertility rate, including Brazil and China, despite the results of China were gotten with a help of a strong fertility control.
http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=sp_dyn_tfrt_in&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country&idim=country:DEU:USA:CHN:JPN:NER&ifdim=country&tdim=true&hl=pt_PT&dl=pt_PT&ind=false
http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=sp_dyn_tfrt_in&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country&idim=country:PRT&ifdim=country&tstart=-301885200000&tend=1275951600000&hl=pt_PT&dl=pt_PT&ind=false
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:ScreenHunter_02_Jun._08_14.51.jpg
Here in Brazil the high society has installed strong security systems to protect themselves of the contact with poor people, criminous, etc. The same happens in many other countries, and the countries each other through emigration policies. This is a game from which all teams have to win without forget the environment, of course.
The question is: will the rate of educational progress and its effect on population growth be fast enough to counterbalance the population explosion? This graph shows clearly the jump from the nineteenth century to the twentieth:
http://rcesar.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Crescimento_Populacao_Mundial_200anosinterval.png
I dont think population is the primary problem of concern.....ya it is one of the problem but not the main problem .....roughly 10 % of people utilizing 90 % resources of earth
Hello, with all respect for Nadeo opinion ( I love some one that goes against a flood) I still think that population is a main problem. Unfortunately, sustainability around the world has more thn one main problem. Seems, and is, a nonsense . But if we could imagine that today we had the same population when I was born ( 3 billions), I think that we all agree that many of the problems of sustainability still been here, but at a very different scale, anyhow problems.
We will always have few resources for our unlimited wishes. The aim of economics it is resolve scarcity issues. I'm writing a book exactly restoring the concept of economics, the ECO-NOMICS our subject of study it is the scarcity, almost the same as ecology. I think that economist for one century lost the road, to embrace an High-way of money, now we need to go home and we are all lost in 88's ( high-way crossings).
I consider as Nadeo that if we all want to find a solution, distribution issue is vital too.
About the security that Airton mentioned, UK one of the worst countries in GINI index , has 4.2 ( 4,2 portugues) million cameras . That's what the the government's information commissioner said to BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6108496.stm). On average we have 1 camera for 14 persons. How many persons there are in a Big- Brother House?
The population growth is a complicated equation with several variables and many boundary conditions. One of these variables is the education level. By the other hand, the availability of foods is limited by the environment, and so on.
Developing countries have to invest more and more on sustainable technologies and protect them by means of patent systems. Some countries have elaborate special green patent programs to contemplate environment-friendly technologies.
Furthermore, sustainable processes and products should be stimulated with reduction of fees and substantial credit support.
Oil Companies have to become in Energy Companies and apply its strength to enhance research and scale up of sustainable processes. There's no reason to use of gasoline yet. The fuel logic to people transportation have to be broken.
with all respect to Ariton Luna's comment i want to add something in ur comments that developed countries must emphasis on sustainable development and must become a model for developing countries and help them in such environment friendly technologies......I am personally against the money making polices which can really hamper when related to environmental and health care related issue , so i am really against the patent system coz patent system could hindered the process.
Ok, Ashutosh. However, if you do not have strenght enough to change the game' rules, you have to accept this limitation and working strategicaly for being the best.
We all have to manage a way to change the patents laws. This simple area could change the life of millions, billions. ( eg: seed patents, medicine patents, alternative energy).
Unfortunately I don't know Indu because we should not talk in English, after all USA and UK are out of this subjects the international language of sustainabily should be the Portuguese and Indu, don't you think so?
Dear Jose Fernandes, I respect your point of view but I think the debate should continue being writen in english. Everyone in this forum is able to comunicate in english, in some extend, and we had important apports from colegues of developed countries, which probably are not able of writing in portuguese or hindu. We should think in a way of aggregate more and more people around the idea of a world environment-friendly to the sustenance of future generations.
Now, we have to focus on the Rio +20 final text and analize it for of someway hurry the implementation of actions arisen on the intention letter approved on the conference.
Very sad ......Activists Who Spoke At The Rio+20 Peoples’ Summit Killed......http://www.countercurrents.org/fld300612.htm
It's a matter of priorities isn't it.
As long as Economics is dominated by billionaire oil men/women saving a few barrels of oil will be a higher priority than cleaning up water, feeding the poor, and supplying sewers and education to them.
Of course the Alternative might not be all that much better.
Recently here in Canada, a charity was found with European roots, that had been spending significantly more than was allowed to any political party to change the results of the Elections. Although the Charity did not admit to funding from established European power bases, it was found that much of the money spent was spent to interfere with the oil billionaires at some level, what we could have here, is simply a battle between "Old Money" in Europe, and "New Money" in the Americas over control of the economy. With the rest of the world as hostage.
THE FUTURE WE WANT 22-Jun2012
https://rio20.un.org/sites/rio20.un.org/files/a-conf.216l-1_english.pdf.pdf
There is only one way to meet global threats and challenges we face on the Earth from now on - to establish the World (Earth) community of Earth citizens - more educated Earth CIVILIZATION.
WORLD PHILOSOPHICAL FORUM has initiated such a Global project - "Earth-XXI CITIZENSHIP".
I invite you all - just join this activity at -
http://wpf.unesco-tlee.org/eng/wcitiz.htm
Some news about Rio +20:
A recent meeting happened on 08-23 and titled 2º Workshop Conjunto BIOTA-BIOEN-Mudanças Climáticas: o futuro que não queremos (Climate changing: the furure we do not want) debated about consequences of final text of Rio summit. Have a look on the links for aditional informs:
http://www.scielo.br/pdf/bn/v12n2/v12n2a02.pdf
http://agencia.fapesp.br/16082
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