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Title: Sustainable Development


1
Sustainable Development
  • David Fisk
  • Prof Engineering for Sustainable Development

2
The Plot
  • Some History
  • What does it mean?
  • Even more history
  • Tomorrow
  • Thinking in the 4th dimension
  • Its ethics stupid!

3
Origins
4
Brundtlands Findings
  • since no one owns it though it supports everyone
  • Series of case studies
  • Government efforts to remove poverty
  • solved todays problem often by.
  • making tomorrows problems worse
  • created off balance sheet liabilities
  • often (but not always) by raiding the
    environment

5
Brundtlands Recomendation
  • Governments should commit themselves to
  • development that meets the needs of the present
    without compromising the ability of future
    generations to meet their needs

6
Too Abstract?
  • Really?
  • Testing how what we do now effects everything in
    the future
  • Environment cant survive in social or economic
    collapse

7
Dividends
Un-sustained development is obvious when you see
it!!
8
New Thinking 1
  • Thinking in 3 capitals not one

Soc
Env
Econ
9
New Thinking 1
  • Thinking in 3 capitals not one
  • Some trade-offs

Soc
Env
Econ
10
New Thinking 1
  • Thinking in 3 capitals not one
  • Some trade-offs
  • But one down all down!!!

Env
Soc
Econ
11
New Thinking 2
  • Thinking in the 4th dimension
  • investing in real options
  • always exposing future liabilities
  • saying the unspeakable
  • Governments find this hard!!
  • 200 civilisations failed so far

12
Trying Hard
Leviticus Law Or Ecology Manual?
200 failed so far
Soviet Union most recent
Old Testament?
13
Was Christianity that bad?
  • Abbeys an exemplar of sustainability
  • Power of fossil fuel has overwhelmed everyone

14
Unsustainable Consumption?
  • You used to be what you owned
  • Now you are what you consume
  • Once it was great just to be rich
  • Now you worry if you arent getting richer
  • Once productivity meant more leisure
  • Now it is needed to even to stay where you are

15
Not So Hard
  • But its actually everyones objective
  • The trick how to meet it but not at the expense
    of anyone else

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A moral issue
  • First Great Commandment Creation
  • But with extended definition of neighbour
  • Polluting the Samaritans air?
  • Stealing the Samaritans future?

Sustainable development is the synthesis not the
conflict of the 2 Greatest Commandments
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