How many people can comfortably fit into your car? What happens when you double that number? Can your car safely and comfortably carry you all? What about the planet? Everyone has to have someplace to live, they must eat, they must use the bathroom, take baths, cook, clean and do all the things we humans do. But what happens when there are too many people crowded into an area? Can the earth carry that load, so to speak? Should there be fewer people, or should people simply learn new and more efficient ways to use the resources we have available?
How many people can comfortably fit into your car? What happens when you double that number? Can your car safely and comfortably carry you all? What about the planet? Everyone has to have someplace to live, they must eat, they must use the bathroom, take baths, cook, clean and do all the things we humans do. But what happens when there are too many people crowded into an area? Can the earth carry that load, so to speak? Should there be fewer people, or should people simply learn new and more efficient ways to use the resources we have available?
Soil is fundamental, fragile and finite. It impacts everything from food and health to conflict and migration. Deeper understanding of its degradation raises the significance of soil to equal that of climate change and biodiversity loss.
We know that the quality of our soil is the key to the food we grow, the clothes we wear and the water we drink. It recycles nutrients, sequesters carbon, is fundamental to biodiversity, helps keep our ecosystems in balance and is an essential part of our general wellbeing. But, although soil represents the difference between survival and extinction for most terrestrial life, human activities have caused it harm leading to compaction, loss of structure, nutrient degradation, increasing salinity and denuding landscapes. Furthermore, the urgent need to preserve soil receives relatively little attention from governments. An unsung hero of our planet, it is fragile, infinitely important and finite. Why do we treat it with such disregard?
As part of the World in 2030 programme, this foresight explores the future of soil and the stresses ahead https://www.futureagenda.org/foresights/peaksoil/
Flooding occurs somewhere in the world approximately 10,000 times every day as the consequences of a locale having more water than the local water cycle can process within its physical limits. Floods occur as the result of: extreme levels of , precipitation in thunderstorms, tropical storms, typhoons, hurricanes, and cyclones; in storm surges, and in tsunami wave run up. What have we learned from recent floods to increase survivability and decrease socioeconomic losses? First of all, the timing of anticipatory actions is vital. People who know: 1) what to expect (e.g., inundation from extreme precipitation, storm surge, tsunami wave run up), 2) where and when impacts will happen, and 3) what they should (and should not) do to prepare for them will survive. Secondly, timely, realistic disaster scenarios save lives. The people who have timely, realistic, advance information that facilitates reduction of vulnerabilities, and hence the risks will survive. Thirdly, Emergency preparedness and response saves lives. The timing of emergency response operations, especially the search and rescue operations that are limited to “the golden 48 hours" will increase the likelihood of survival. The local community’s capacity for emergency health care (i,e., coping with damaged hospitals and medical facilities, lack of clean drinking water, food, and medicine to treat water borne diseases, and high levels of morbidity and mortality) is vital for survival. The local community’s capacity for emergency health care (i,e., coping with damaged hospitals and medical facilities, lack of clean drinking water, food, and medicine, and high levels of morbidity and mortality) is vital for survival. And finally, engineered infrastructure save lives. Infrastructure engineered to withstand the risks from floods (e.g., damage, failure, and loss of function), is vital for survival. We continue to operate with a flawed premise: knowledge from flood disasters, which occur every day somewhere in the world in association with rain, severe windstorms, and tsunamis, is enough to make any nation adopt and implement policies to facilitate disaster resilience. Unfortunately, the fact of the matter is, global construction in the flood plain of rivers and along coastal areas is extensive; the associated political controversy causes most nations to be slow to adopt and implement policies for flood disaster resilience. Presentation courtesy of Dr. Walter Hays, Global Alliance For Disaster Reduction
While some regions gain from better water management, much of the world’s population increasingly depend on water moved from one river basin to another. New options are explored to achieve this economically and with reduced socio-environmental damage.
As part of the World in 2030 global open foresight project, this point of view shares some perspective on changes ahead.
With climate change, increasing urbanisation, growing contamination, higher water consumption, more intensive farming and rising industrial use in many economies all having significant and combined impact, as the global population approaches 10 billion, but the net amount of water on the planet stays constant, concerns over water stress have been building. With 70% of water used for agriculture, a quarter of humanity is now facing a looming water crisis. A broadening range of urban areas need multiple innovations to provide water to cities throughout the year.
Although better water management and the decreasing cost of desalination are having impact in some regions, in many others, and especially for fast-growing inland cities, the task of ensuring continued water access is mounting. Simply moving water from one river basin to another is not straightforward. It is fraught with technological, environmental, economic and socio-political challenge. There are however several developments underway to enable more effective long-distance movement of water – some focused on building new infrastructure at scale and others looking to imaginatively repurpose existing assets to help meet the inevitable future demand.
Share your views @futureagenda
Environmental issues emerging from increase in populationDevansh Tiwari
More people require more resources, which means that as the population increases, the Earth’s resources deplete more rapidly. The result of this depletion is deforestation and loss of biodiversity as humans strip the Earth of resources to accommodate rising population numbers
A presentation given to the Conference of INGOs committee for Democracy, Social Cohesion and Global Challenges on the significance of climate change as one of the complex factors affecting migration.
The conclusion suggests that climat change is a critical factor in all aspects of the work that the Council of Europe is involved in and that environmental issues - especially sustainable development - should be a top priority for its future work
Soil is fundamental, fragile and finite. It impacts everything from food and health to conflict and migration. Deeper understanding of its degradation raises the significance of soil to equal that of climate change and biodiversity loss.
We know that the quality of our soil is the key to the food we grow, the clothes we wear and the water we drink. It recycles nutrients, sequesters carbon, is fundamental to biodiversity, helps keep our ecosystems in balance and is an essential part of our general wellbeing. But, although soil represents the difference between survival and extinction for most terrestrial life, human activities have caused it harm leading to compaction, loss of structure, nutrient degradation, increasing salinity and denuding landscapes. Furthermore, the urgent need to preserve soil receives relatively little attention from governments. An unsung hero of our planet, it is fragile, infinitely important and finite. Why do we treat it with such disregard?
As part of the World in 2030 programme, this foresight explores the future of soil and the stresses ahead https://www.futureagenda.org/foresights/peaksoil/
Flooding occurs somewhere in the world approximately 10,000 times every day as the consequences of a locale having more water than the local water cycle can process within its physical limits. Floods occur as the result of: extreme levels of , precipitation in thunderstorms, tropical storms, typhoons, hurricanes, and cyclones; in storm surges, and in tsunami wave run up. What have we learned from recent floods to increase survivability and decrease socioeconomic losses? First of all, the timing of anticipatory actions is vital. People who know: 1) what to expect (e.g., inundation from extreme precipitation, storm surge, tsunami wave run up), 2) where and when impacts will happen, and 3) what they should (and should not) do to prepare for them will survive. Secondly, timely, realistic disaster scenarios save lives. The people who have timely, realistic, advance information that facilitates reduction of vulnerabilities, and hence the risks will survive. Thirdly, Emergency preparedness and response saves lives. The timing of emergency response operations, especially the search and rescue operations that are limited to “the golden 48 hours" will increase the likelihood of survival. The local community’s capacity for emergency health care (i,e., coping with damaged hospitals and medical facilities, lack of clean drinking water, food, and medicine to treat water borne diseases, and high levels of morbidity and mortality) is vital for survival. The local community’s capacity for emergency health care (i,e., coping with damaged hospitals and medical facilities, lack of clean drinking water, food, and medicine, and high levels of morbidity and mortality) is vital for survival. And finally, engineered infrastructure save lives. Infrastructure engineered to withstand the risks from floods (e.g., damage, failure, and loss of function), is vital for survival. We continue to operate with a flawed premise: knowledge from flood disasters, which occur every day somewhere in the world in association with rain, severe windstorms, and tsunamis, is enough to make any nation adopt and implement policies to facilitate disaster resilience. Unfortunately, the fact of the matter is, global construction in the flood plain of rivers and along coastal areas is extensive; the associated political controversy causes most nations to be slow to adopt and implement policies for flood disaster resilience. Presentation courtesy of Dr. Walter Hays, Global Alliance For Disaster Reduction
While some regions gain from better water management, much of the world’s population increasingly depend on water moved from one river basin to another. New options are explored to achieve this economically and with reduced socio-environmental damage.
As part of the World in 2030 global open foresight project, this point of view shares some perspective on changes ahead.
With climate change, increasing urbanisation, growing contamination, higher water consumption, more intensive farming and rising industrial use in many economies all having significant and combined impact, as the global population approaches 10 billion, but the net amount of water on the planet stays constant, concerns over water stress have been building. With 70% of water used for agriculture, a quarter of humanity is now facing a looming water crisis. A broadening range of urban areas need multiple innovations to provide water to cities throughout the year.
Although better water management and the decreasing cost of desalination are having impact in some regions, in many others, and especially for fast-growing inland cities, the task of ensuring continued water access is mounting. Simply moving water from one river basin to another is not straightforward. It is fraught with technological, environmental, economic and socio-political challenge. There are however several developments underway to enable more effective long-distance movement of water – some focused on building new infrastructure at scale and others looking to imaginatively repurpose existing assets to help meet the inevitable future demand.
Share your views @futureagenda
Environmental issues emerging from increase in populationDevansh Tiwari
More people require more resources, which means that as the population increases, the Earth’s resources deplete more rapidly. The result of this depletion is deforestation and loss of biodiversity as humans strip the Earth of resources to accommodate rising population numbers
A presentation given to the Conference of INGOs committee for Democracy, Social Cohesion and Global Challenges on the significance of climate change as one of the complex factors affecting migration.
The conclusion suggests that climat change is a critical factor in all aspects of the work that the Council of Europe is involved in and that environmental issues - especially sustainable development - should be a top priority for its future work
CONSEQUENCES OF OUR ACCUMULATED ENVIRONMENTAL VIOLATIONS
Tony OPOSA
In the Laws of
Nature,
There is no right nor
wrong,
There are no rewards
nor punishments;
There are only
consequences.
This is a power point presentation for class 11 students.this is purely for seminar or presentation based.This is to help students for ideas ,how to present and to know the earth ,love it.
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A photograph of the decisive decade we are facing, the perfect storm of environmental, economic and growth crisis we are facing and some possible ways to help the transition from this old unsustainable system to a new world order sustained by a new approach of global prosperity, justice and sustainability.
When Technology Fails: Self-Reliance and Coping with the Long Emergency, pres...Tahoe Silicon Mountain
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If the question is asked “What is Love Canal? Why is it important?” the answer could be simply put, it is an incomplete canal, or just a trench, built in western New York state in the 1890s. From the 1930s through the 1950s, it was used as a chemical waste dump. The surrounding land was then sold and used for residential purposes, and soon people began complaining about strange odours and possible health problems. Since the late 1970s, many studies have been done to ascertain whether any health problems can be traced to the waste dumped into LoveCanal.
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ResearchTalks Vol.7 - Why are the people protesting against fracking?
1. Why are people protesting?
The global anti-fracking movement
“When government turns against people, resistance
becomes a responsibility”
2. What’s at stake with fracking?
• How long can you survive
without:
Air? 3 minutes
Water? 3 days (up to 6-7
days)
Food? 3 weeks
Water = 65% of the human
body
3. USA shale: boom or doom?
• Mid 2000’ – Fracking industry
takes off, industry and
government present only the
bright side: shale boom, price
decreases, energy
independence, “game
changer”.
• Politics of the revolving doors
helped fracking to take off: the
Halliburton loophole helped
circumventing the
environmental legislation
(exception from the Clean
Water and Clean Air Act for the
fracking operations).
4. Fracking denial – government strategy
Drop it!
Forget about it!
Hide it!
Delaying of the EPA report on fracking from 2012 to
2016!!! Obama Administration censoring relevant results of
the EPA PA.
July 2013 – Dept of Energy – fracking is safe, the
chemicals did not reach the aquifers! Methane is
naturally occurring. Yet EPA employees advising people off
the record not to drink the water!
Hiding the database, making it difficult to access - DEP PA
5. USA shale: definitely doom!
• THEN…Gasland movie, the most influential vehicle of showing
worldwide the disasters related to fracking already in 2010 – the real
“game changer” in the story of fracking.
• Further home-made movies of the harmed, showing the nightmare of
fracking, reaching out to a broader audience.
• Resistance started taking shape in rural America: Local action groups
meeting in kitchens, movies, discussions, support groups – the very
grassroots character of the antifracking movement.
6. Scientific proofs are crying out for a BAN!
• Professor Tony Ingraffea: the new form of fracking: “an
unparalelled danger to the environment and the human
health”.
• Ever since, a growing body of peer reviewed scientific
evidence has piled up to show only a tiny fraction of what
the long term catastrophic impacts of fracking can be.
• Simple citizens turned overnight into geologists, chemists,
lawyers, rig hunters, film makers and started the resistance.
Global communication helped them get the word out!
National and international networks of fracktivism started
emerging.
• Scientists, physicians and artists, local elected politicians,
landlords, brewers, farmers joined forces to stop fracking.
7. Science is politics: The deaf years of the
governments
• Politics of the revolving doors
• Politicians and regulatory bodies in environmental
protection – not availing to the growing body of scientific
evidence on the MASSIVE dangers of fracking for the
environment and the public health.
• Citizens availed themselves massively to the results and
the consequences.
• The fight started, by all means: Petitions, letters, written
comments, lawsuits. Protests, fracking site blockades,
civil disobedience. Yet the authorities ignored them
constantly – democratic legitimacy questioned!
• Massive frustration of many local communities, leading
the locals to act in “self defence”.
12. The antifracking movement
– grassroots activism going global -
• Due to global communication – easy to spread the
information on the dangers. English helped a lot!
• Fracktivism – not just another “green cult”. Very genuine
grassroots movement. Barely any big NGOs involved.
• Fracktivism - as grassrooty, unconventional as it can get:
conservative, middle class bourgeoisie joining the fight,
together with farmers and workers, environmental activists.
• Fracktivism - beyond political and religious views; the first
EM bringing the subject of “destroying the creation”.
• "I have never seen an environmental movement spread
with such wildfire as this. It’s like lighting a fire of
powder” (Robert Boyle)
13. Fracktivism around the world
There are now antifracking movements all over the world,
covering most of the countries with fracking plans
Global Frackdown 3 – mid october
20. Why are people protesting?
• They feel their life and their future threatened by the
contamination of water, air, land and much more
dangers associated with fracking.
• They are fed up with the blatant lies of the government,
allied with the companies and the way they are just
ignoring their voices.
• They are fighting for democracy, for their right to decide
how the future of their community and of the planet
looks like
• A global awareness network is being set up by means
of fracking, that can be the powerhouse for the new
global revolution, one that will attack the roots of the
problem: GREED and ruthless capitalism and the wish
to control.
21. Fracking – the new terrorism of the state
against its own citizens
22. Fracking and Democracy
• Where it has arrived, fracking slashed democracy. The blockade
estate: USA, Canada (New Brunswick), Argentina (Neuquen
Province), Australia (Bentley blockade), Barton Moss, Balcombe (UK),
Zurawlow
• Police intervened brutally to suppress the protests, shooting guns,
beating women, old, impaired persons, arrested peaceful protesters.
• Romania, Poland – massive intimidations of the police and the
authorities.
23. Romania, the fracking hell
• Over 60% of the country leased for fracking
• Current government has promised to ban fracking before
coming to power, then U-turn.
• Blatant abuses of the local authorities, huge lobby,
mayors buy land to lease it to the gas companies
• Secret fracking rigs, no environmental standards met.
• Rural people of Romania – subsistance agriculture – 45%
of the population, heavily relying on agriculture, water,
soil.
• Massive fracking plans, yet secret.
• Romania already energy independent.
• Fracking oponents – accused of being paid by Putin
• Pungesti – a war zone, riot policemen defending Chevron
site
24. That’s why are the people protesting
• Jack, 9 years old, Balcombe
blockade, August 2013:
“ I don't want it to happen. I
haven't been to a protest
before. It's sort of scary
sometimes. But this is
poisoning the water and I
want clean water and I don't
want the air polluted either.“
Children at the anti Chevron blockade in Pungesti, Romania
25. Why the war on fracking is so important
• Fracking is about your WATER, about your AIR, about
your HEALTH and LIFE, your basic RIGHTS, your
FUTURE! Poisoning your water is simply poisoning
yourself! It is about the survival on this planet!
• Now, not in your backyard, soon, it will be! Get ready to
fight it and meanwhile follow and support the other fights!
• Fracking, if not stopped, will be the most tremendous
envirnmental problem of the centuries to come. Water
poisoning around the globe and speeding up global
warming are just some of the impacts of fracking.
• If citizens don’t act, the future will be pretty dire.
26. Join the fight! Be a protector!
• Thank you for speaking out!
Maria Olteanu, protector.