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(1988) Re: Chlorofluorocarbons
We must totally control the production, storage, distribution, use, disposal and dispersal of chlorofluorocarbons.
We must retrieve some of the chlorine at work in the stratosphere
as a result of the absence of such controls in the past.
We must allow for no future production, storage, distribution,
use or disposal of such chemicals as chlorofluorocarbons, PCB's, pesticides,
herbicides, fungicides, etc.,
without complete environmental impact assessment.
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Change What? How?
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(1988) We Must Change!
Change is necessary. We agree. Both urgent change and extensive
change are necessary. The twenty-one nations who participated in the
United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development
(WCED), the Brundtland Commission, formulated what they agreed
upon: much must change. The Brundtland Commission states that the
relationship between environment and development must extensively
change. These twenty-one nations were nations with diverse interests and
diverse principles and policies of government. Yet, the U.S.S.R., India,
China, the U.S.A., Japan, West Germany, France, Italy, Brazil, Canada,
and the eleven other participating nations agreed. The WCED report, the
Brundtland Commission report, clearly states: "We must change - both
the regard we have for the environment and the way we develop". In
October 1987, the United Nations General Assembly heard and accepted
the report. The United Nations ratified the report: "Our Common Future".
The G7 Economic Summit of June '88 endorsed the report.
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Ecology: Physiology Extended to the Environment
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(1988) Transport: an Issue of Physiology
When we determine to centralize or decentralize human habitation,
when we determine the vascular paths (the transportation system)
within and between places of human habitation and / or human activity,
we seldom regard the kind of transport or the distances of transport
to be an issue of physiology.
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Global Change The Context for National and Regional Policy
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(1988) The rate of Change of the Global Climate is greater than ever before.
Warming will be from ten to forty times faster than ever before
in geological history.
Middle and higher latitudes will experience the greatest changes.
That means Canada.
There will be an increase in the frequency of disastrous events
e.g. hurricanes, forest fires, droughts, floods, toxic spills.
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Global Efforts To Protect the Environment
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(1988) In a headline, "Global Effort Urged to Protect Environment,"
the fifth annual report of The Worldwatch Institute is described.
Here is a list of major efforts in the report:
Ù restore and protect topsoil
Ù restore forests
Ù slow population growth
Ù return debts of developing countries
Ù raise energy efficiencies
Ù develop renewable energy sources.
In a statement in the summary of the report,
"If the world stays on the current path, crises will compound
and accelerate until they overwhelm the capacity of institutions to respond."
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Habitable Room For Life
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(1988)
There is no habitable room for people
without habitable room for other life forms. Human life is totally dependent upon other life forms.
We are dependent upon other life forms for the oxygen we need,
to maintain the elevated body temperature,
which provides mobility, agility and adaptability:
quickness, awareness and alertness.
We are homo sapiens partly because of this elevated body temperature.
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Honoured Life Upon Which We Depend: Beyond The Age of Iron
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(1988) Human activity respects, regards and values: metal, glass, and plastic.
These are substances we use to enclose, to shield, to separate.
We create an inside and an outside with these substances.
In order to gain these substances, we destroy trees, plants and soil.
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Honouring Life Upon Which We Depend: An Environmental Opportunity
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(1988) From native knowledge to scientific understanding
of our global environment.
The necessity for a fundamental paradigm shift
in our thinking, teaching and living.
(School Presentation announcement, referencing document by same title)
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Oeconomy and Oecology
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(1986) Oeconomy and Oecology, as terms,
derive from the same Greek word: oikos (Greek letters).
That word means the house, the household, the domain,
the environment or the surroundings, figuratively, the context.
The suffix "nomy" is based upon the Greek term: nomos (Greek letters).
That Greek term means the law, the rule or regulation.
The other suffix "logy", is based upon the Greek term: logos (logos).
That term means the meaning, the study of, in this case, the oikos (oikos).
So the subject at hand is the subject of: the laws, the rules or regulations
and the meaning of the house, the household or the domain,
the environment or the surroundings, perhaps, the context.
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People, Resources Environment & Development
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(1989) Needed Change - Agreed Unanimously
When Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland was commissioned
by the U.N., in 1983, to inquire into the relationship
between people, resources, the environment and development,
she and the other twenty-one members of the commission
unanimously agreed upon the need for change.
They pursued the question: "What is wrong?".
From 1984 to 1987, for 900 days, they gathered and structured testimony.
In April 1987, they held the last of six major regional hearings:
The last hearing was in Japan.
In May, they submitted their report. In November 1987,
the United Nations ratified the report.
There is no habitable room for human life
without habitable room for other life forms
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Planning Ratios of Human Habitation to Life Forms Upon Which Human Life is Dependent
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(1989) There are two strategies for improving the development pattern
of having soil, essential soil,
covered with paving and urban structures:
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Respect-Generating Balances and Motivation
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(1987) Ecosystems work - partly because of respect-generating balances.
Predators generate one form of respect in their prey.
Skunks, bees and snakes generate another form of respect.
Somehow, all snakes gain some respect from the powers of a few.
All spiders gain some respect from the powers of only a few,
at least within those who don't know the differences.
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Sudden Change Cascading Feedback
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(1988) There were two changes in consensus science, reported by John Gribbin
in the book, The Hole in the Ozone Layer,
published in May of this year and based partly
upon the conference held in Berlin, in November 1987,
the Dahlem conference:
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The Orthic The True The Real
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(1988) While most scientists will take large, intricate and complex problems
and whittle them down to what we call manageable size,
DOMAIN uses the approach of leaving the problem
in its original proportions and scale,
using analysis more rarely, and instead,
working at the capacity of the mind to encompass, to enfold,
to contain and process the problem.
Analytic whittling causes you to understand components
and subsystems because of the portions you isolate and define,
but to be unable to understand the whole,
the organic system and its ecology.
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Water
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(1992) Water, unspoiled, unpolluted, clear, clean, healthy, water, is essential for all life. But human behaviour, everywhere, fouls the water.
There is always someone downstream
to bear the consequences of the thoughtless, the careless, the defiant.
We have assumed that the delay in consequences
created by a vast tolerant web of bioevents
meant there were no consequences.
Not so.
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