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NASA.gov video youtube.com/watch?v=gGOzHVUQCw0
learn more: Joanna Macy 'www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwlXTAT8rLk
A sense of scale:
We are currently experiencing the third great Revolution in the history of mankind.
Bill McKibben, Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College, Vermont
youtube.com/watch?v=5KtGg-Lvxso
David Holmgren, co-founder of the Permaculture Movement
learn more at http://permacultureprinciples.com/
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/datablog/2017/jan/19/carbon-countdown-clock-how-much-of-the-worlds-carbon-budget-have-we-spent
paths forward
It's got to be a
DESCENT
If our goal is to keep the Earth’s temperature from rising more than two degrees Celsius —
the upper limit identified by the nations of the world —
how much more new digging and drilling can we do?
Here’s the answer: zero.
-- Bill McKibben, Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College, Vermont
"Recalculating Climate Math," New Republic, Sept 2016
from 5-planets-worth-of-consumption, to something much more in line with 1
learn more: http://www.resilience.org/stories/2013-12-09/powerdown-let-s-talk-about-it
LINGO banner painted by youth for Rio+20
Joanna Macy, eco-philosopher
Humanity is facing a "triple crisis" that defines the new future.
a.k.a. "Peak Everything"
David Holmgren, co-founder of the Permaculture Movement
more info http://www.futurescenarios.org/
sus·tain·a·ble
adjective
1. able to be maintained at a certain rate or level.
2. able to be upheld or defended.
ASPO & Cornell University
http://www.geo.cornell.edu/eas/energy/the_challenges/peak_oil.html
learn more at Global Footprint Network http://www.footprintnetwork.org/
Infinite growth is impossible
on a finite planet.
NINE planets worth of consumption ...
EIGHT planets worth of consumption ...
early 1900's 100:1
today 19:1
SEVEN planets worth of consumption ...
Charles Hall, Jessica Lambert, SUNY (State University of New York) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421513003856
SIX planets worth of consumption ...
FIVE planets worth of consumption ...
more info: Joanne Poyourow "What Everyone Ought To Know About Today's Economy"