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Targets for Global Resource Consumption

 

Workshop “Policies, strategies and instruments for towards a sustainable resource use”

Dr. Stefan Bringezu, Juni 2009 Berlin

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OUR LIFESTYLE IS DESTROYING GOD’S CREATION!

ACT NOW BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE!

Did you know that YOUR lawn mower, YOUR washing machine and YOUR trip by car to the church are at the expense of ever-increasing climate change? You can see the devastating results as commonplace on the nightly news; floods, hurricanes and water shortages. Dying children. And it’s only getting worse……GIBT ES ZUKUNFT?Traditioneller Umweltschutz konzentriert sich noch immer auf die Bekämpfung einzelner ungewollter Konsequenzen der Wohlfahrtsgestaltung an der Ausgangsseite der Wirtschaft, einschließlich CO2. Zukunftsgerichteter Schutz der Umwelt hingegen muss zum Ziele haben, den grundlegenden Konflikt zwischen heutiger Wirtschaftsgestaltung und den Gesetzen der Natur zu lösen. An vorderster Stelle steht hierbei, natürliche Ressourcen dramatisch effizienter zu nutzen als bisher. Technik kann dies leisten. Aber nur dann, wenn es sich lohnt, und gesetzliche Bestimmungen dies unterstützen.more

The Economic Crisis and the Climate Change Fundamental Defects of the Free Market System

THE FOLLOWING TEXT IS THE 2010 DECLARATION

OF THE INTERNATIONAL FACTOR 10 CLUB

WITH EXPANATORY NOTES OF ITS FOUNDING PRESIDENT

F. Schmidt-Bleek

1. Good living, prosperous economies, high levels of employment and peace require a healthy environment, including an agreeable climate and rich biodiversity. Today, all are threatened: urgent action to change course and reduce the overuse of fossil fuels, water and material resources is of paramount importance. To this end, the Factor 10 Club in 1994 called on governments to achieve within a generation a ten-fold increase in the efficiency with which their economies use energy, natural resources and other materials. The technologies required for a four-fold increase exist and, with appropriate policy reforms, a tenfold increase could be achieved.  > more

DECLARATION 2010 INTERNATIONAL FACTOR 10 CLUB

EINE KOALITION WILLIGER LÄNDER WIRD GEBRAUCHT

FÜR DIE ZEHNFACHE ERHÖHUNG

DER ENERGIE- UND MATERIALEFFIZIENZ

1. Erfülltes Leben, Frieden, leistungsfähige Wirtschaften, und hohes Beschäftigungsniveau erfordern eine gesunde Umwelt, stabiles Klima, sauberes Wasser und eine Vielfalt von Arten. Heute sind sie alle in Gefahr. Es ist dringend, dies zu ändern. An erster Stelle dabei steht die Reduzierung des noch immer ungehemmten Verbrauches an Fossilen Brennstoffen und anderer materieller Ressourcen der Erde. Der Factor 10 Club hat bereits 1994 die Regierungen aufgerufen, die Effizienz der Nutzung natürlicher Ressourcen im Laufe einer Generation um das Zehnfache zu verbessern. Im Prinzip existiert schon heute Technik, den Faktor 4 zu verwirklichen. Mit entsprechenden politischen Reformen kann Faktor 10 verwirklicht werden. mehr 

Reducing Resource Consumption. A Proposal for Global Resource and Environmental Policy

a paper from the Lindau Group 2009 by Paul Ekins, Bernd Meyer and Bio Schmidt-Bleek1. INTRODUCTIONRecently, the world has witnessed how market failures and foresight incompetence impaired the stability of the global financial system and with it the entire economy. Insufficient accounting methods and incomplete early warning systems, missing competence in systems analysis and unwillingness to implement precautionary policies, short-term profit maximization and wrong prices of products were among the key causing factors. As one consequence, even the CEOs of leading financial institutions have called for a framework of rules capable of avoiding a similar disaster in the future. As another, thousands of billions of Euros were committed by governments to limit the potential damage inflicted upon civil society by just one industry.While the ecological crisis does not as yet seem as acutely threatening as the financial disaster, it does have some of the same roots. Here, too, market failures and foresight incompetence, short-term profit maximization and wrong prices of products are among the key causing factors. The current market process itself is thus prominently responsible for the continuing and long-term destruction of the life-sustaining ecosystem services. While the health of the financial system can eventually be restored, this is not possible for lost ecosystem services, putting ultimately into question the very survival of humankind on earth. more