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The
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We
Are Living Beyond Our Means
According
to the Millennium
Ecosystem Assessment (MA), a UN report backed by 1,360 leading
scientists from 95 countries released in March 2005, unless we change our
policies and practices substantially, human race faces a major
environmental catastrophe this century.
The assessment analyses the connections between ecosystems and human
well-being focusing on "ecosystem services." An ecosystem is
"a dynamic complex of plant, animal, and microorganism communities
and the nonliving environment interacting as a functional unit." The
MA examines the continuum of ecosystems including the "relatively
undisturbed, such as natural forests, to landscapes with mixed patterns of
human use, to ecosystems intensively managed and modified by humans, such
as agricultural land and urban areas." The benefits that people
obtain from ecosystem services include "provisioning services such as
food, water, timber, and fiber; regulating services that affect climate,
floods, disease, wastes, and water quality; cultural services that provide
recreational, aesthetic, and spiritual benefits; and supporting services
such as soil formation, photosynthesis, and nutrient cycling."
The MA correctly identifies humans as integral parts of ecosystems
dynamically interacting with all ecosystems both directly and indirectly.
Changes in human conditions including social, economical and cultural
changes create changes in ecosystems, which in turn cause changes in human
well-being, as well as in other species. Regardless of its ingenuity and
technological achievements, which provide some protection against
environmental changes, human race cannot survive on Earth without the
ecosystem services.
According to the MA report 15 of the 24 ecosystems vital for supporting
life are in danger of collapsing including fresh water, fisheries, air and
water purification systems, and the systems that regulate climate, natural
hazards, and pests.
A
Sustainable Model
Creating
A Sustainable Future (CASF) proposes to establish a sustainable village,
provisionally named “Solar Clusters,” to enable a transition into the
new, post-petroleum century - a time dominated by pollution, resources
depletion, social unrest, global heating, and environmental catastrophe.
Solar Clusters would offer a new paradigm for sustainable living: use
renewable energy (hybrid solar-wind and other sources as appropriate);
establish a progressive learning center, Living University; produce food
(chemical free diversified farming, horticulture, aquaculture); promote
R&D for life sciences and low-energy technologies; recycle waste;
provide some protection against violent climatic changes; export the
know-how; and serve as a blueprint for similar projects worldwide.
The units would be built from emission-free, natural materials available
locally.Solar Clusters would be designed aesthetically as
people-centered (as opposed to car-centered) professional communities
where residents can live and work in a sustainable environment,
participate in the food production, spend quality-time with family and
friends, rediscover spirituality and create new bonds with Earth and the
rest of the intelligent universe.
Energy
Humans
use about 150 times more energy now than in the pre-industrial times. In
2006 we consumed a staggering 4.81E+20 joules of energy globally (equal to
the energy released by about 8 million Hiroshima bombs) at a rate of 15.2
terawatts (15.2 E+12 joules/second). At such high rates of consumption the
resultant pollution would overwhelm and destroy the planet’s life
support systems in a very short time.
In its first phase of operation, the Solar Cluster aims to reduce the
residents' per capita fossil fuel consumption by up to 80 percent compared
with the average consumption in the "developed-world" without
compromising the standards of comfort. Such large reductions in fossil
fuel burning would help create a carbon neutral environment regionally.
Living
University
To
develop skills required for sustaining post-carbon communities, Solar
Clusters would establish Living University, a progressive
learning center for residents and visiting participants.
Living University, a hands-on learning center, would
concentrate on developing sustainable life sciences and set new standards
of excellence in the development of Low-Energy Technologies (LET) in
association with an advanced science park.
Solar Clusters would facilitate sustainable living in harmony with the
planet's life-support systems, and help mitigate the effects of
deleterious changes that are being made to the environment, where
possible.
By virtues of its self-sufficiency in producing food, generating power,
and nurturing low-energy technologies Solar Clusters would provide
permanent homes and jobs and lifelong income and security for the
residents.
A
Unique Opportunity
The
Solar
Clusters, Living University and LET Science Park would serve as a
blueprint for setting new standards of excellence for sustainable life
sciences and low-energy technologies creating a new and exciting
opportunity for exporting knowledge and the know-how to the rest of the
world.
The Youth
The
youth are custodians of the future. The skills we have learned must be
passed on to them to enable them carrying the human values, wisdom and
genes into the far future, generation after generation. The Solar Clusters
would provide a unique opportunity for the youth to learn also the skills
that are required for sustainable living enabling them to make a vital
contribution to creating a sustainable future for humanity.
The Think Tank
Life
is not possible without a healthy ecosystem - the life support systems. In
conjunction with the Solar Clusters, a project for sustainable living and
Living University, CASF is forming a think-tank comprised
of visionaries, professionals and scientists in all disciplines to
contribute to the success of its projects.
The think-tank is developing a new system of values based on the
ecosystem, natural economy, community values, ethics and morality; the
think-tank is devising and helping implement the means to achieving and
preserving life in harmony with nature and what is left of the life
support systems as means of creating a sustainable future.
CASF
invites you to help create a sustainable future.
email: casf
New Zealand: A Cesspool of Spies, Assassins, Genocidal Murderers
Harry Saloor, the
MSRB Founder, and his family, mislead by the official publicity apparatus, which portrayed New Zealand as ' clean' and ' green,' and the deceptive propaganda by the government which
misrepresented New Zealand as a free and democratic country, moved to New Zealand with a view to starting up the Solar Clusters project… Here's how the events unfolded:
Human Rights Violations
To read the rest of this article contact admin [at]
restorative-business [ -dot- ] org
The Poisoning of New Zealand
A Letter to NZ Prime Minister
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