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A STORY OF A RICH MAN
82 YRS OLDInheritance, 10 M, Trustee
1 M a day, 9.5 days, Lost it all CALL IT REVENUE, PROFIT ?
Earth: The Only Planet which contains ….
4.5 Billion years
Composed of the delicate mixtures of the basic elements of Life. Air, Water and Soil
LIFE -600 M Yrs, Man-1 M; Human Civilization – 7-10,000 yrs ago
when humans descended from the trees and mountains, and settled in the fertile plains of
Sumeria and Mesopotamia
• Industrial Rev barely 200 years ago • Significance of IR: Started to use sources of life
faster than rate of replenishment)
Cut down trees and wiped out forests, and then called it
income, Gross National
Product
FISH Catch– 90 to 95%in some, facing total collapse
Call it: Revenue, Income
Revenue IncomeProfit, GNP
BURNING OF FOSSIL FUELS
Air Pollutionand Global Heating
Development!
Revenue; Profit; Progress, Development?
DEVELOPMENT BASED ON THE AMOUNT OF ENERGY PRODUCED AND USED AND VOLUME OF WASTE GENERATED?
Used, used up, dirtied
Waters
Is this the water that my parents
and their generation want
me to drink?
Environment-Not about
birds and bees,
Sources of LifeLand, Air and Water
Vital Organs of LIFE on Earth
Trees and forests- Lungs- Land & soil - skin and flesh- Sea and waterways – blood
and bloodstreams- 70% of the human body and of
the Earth is water
Of this living planet
we call
home!
Mining: DISEMBOWELED THE EARTH, SCRAPE AWAY LIFE GIVING SOIL AND THROW AWAY WATER >Revenue? PARADOX OF DIAMOND AND WATER > Or Depletion of the natural capital?
• Called it income, revenue, and contribution to the GNP;
• Rate of Consumption used as model of “progress and development”
• “Industrialized” Developed economy?”
• CONSUMPTION???• Highly-consuming
Economics efficient use of scarce resources.
• “Development based on Extraction and ‘Consumption’
• 5% of people-• 30% of resources)• Need 9 earths to
satisfy the consumption patterns
• Is Waste Economical?• “Developed Economy”
-- contradiction of terms?
• Story of grandfather?• False accounting:
ENRON?• Story of Wealth and
Responsibility
FOLLOWING AND Using that
ECONOMIC Mindset of
Extraction and Consumption
Look what happened to the Philippines
• Wealth
Land Area:
30 M ha.
Land Classification
50%-50%
60 years ago-
16 M; 1988-800,000
Forest Cover 1999
CEBU IS THE WORSE: FOREST COVER: __%, MOST SEVERELY ERODED, MOST CRITICAL IN WATER SUPPLY, CEBUANO KAINGINEROS
CEBU-TRADING CENTER
70%
• The Indo-Malay-Philippine Archipelago (IMPA) – the CENTER OF MARINE WEALTH ON EARTHSulu-Sulawesi Marine Triangle
The “PHILIPPINES IS THE CENTER OF THE CENTER OF MARINE BIODIVERSITY ON EARTH”– Dr. Kent Carpenter/UN FAO Study
AMAZON OF THE SEAS, PHILIPPINE SEA OF THE FORESTS
FROM 3 MILLION
0.2% INTACT CEBUANOS: BLASTING POWDER, BLASTING CAPS, CYANIDE (MACTAN AND BTYN)
Destructive Forms of Fishing
31 Jan 2006, 1002 hrs:
Air pollution 80-90% of air polluton is from cars-motor vehicles
estimated at 8,000 tons per day and estimated at 8,000 tons per day and expected to double by year 2010expected to double by year 2010
Metro Manila
Solid Waste GenerationSolid Waste Generation
WATER POLLUTIONWATER POLLUTION
Share of Domestic, Industrial, and Agricultural BOD at the National Level
Industrial15%
Domestic48%
Agricultural37%
Biologically Dead Rivers Biologically Dead Rivers
16 Rivers are dead
Violations of Laws!
Adverse health impacts
TSP levels above the standards by as much as 200%
Earth’s FEVERMore intense typhoons;
Erratic and abnormal weather patterns increased incidence of infectious diseases; coral deaths; droughts, etc, flooding
Stuck to the economic model of extraction, consumption and waste:
Inertia of collective Insanity
danger opportunity
CRISIS
To Humankind: Extinction of our species Show our wisdom as a species
Crisis of LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS
CRISIS OF Paralysis and Inaction
• Overwhelmed by the Problem
• Looking to leaders who are useless and irrelevant and cannot provide solutions
• Inertia of collective insanity
ROLE OF THE LAW• LAW IS NOTHING MORE THAN POLICY
DISTILLED IN LEGAL FORM AND LANGUAGE
• POLICY – THE WAY WE DO THINGS IN THE WORLD -- IS ONLY A MIRROR IMAGE OF PARADIGM AND PHILOSOPHY – THE WAY WE LOOK AT THE WORLD
• IT CAN GUIDE CONDUCT AND SPARK ACTION
danger opportunity
CRISIS OF CLIMATE CHANGE to a Climate of Change…
To Humankind: Extinction of our species
ADULTS- a simple signature will make a big differenceShow our wisdom as a species
• We cannot solve problems using the same mindset that created them in the first place
• Think and Jump out of the Box• Shifting Mindset from THE ECONOMICS OF Consumption to • ECONOMICS OF Conservation,
Protection and Restoration (CPR)• NATURAL CAPITALISM, GREEN / ECO-
ECONOMICS, SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS
• DO NOT USE CAPITAL, • ONLY INTEREST!• PROPER ACCOUNTING!
Changing Mindset
Energy conservation
Clean/renewable energy systems
CPR ECONOMICS
restorative Economics
(eg, Northern Aral Sea
Restoring not only the life-support systems but also the connection between man and nature
Sustainable Agri, Urban Greening, Water Recycling
Banaue rice terraces:
< 2000 years old
Restore wealth of the Earth’s Skin -- the soils- source of or food!
Agricultural lands- Contour-SALT
• Shifting mindsets • Man is more than matter • Basics: Security, Health, Food, (Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs)
… (Happiness indicators – level of criminality, food security, etc. …intellectual, emotional, and spiritual fulfillment
Other Economic Activities
• Social Relations • -- family and friends• Work (fulfillment –8 hrs/day)
– (“Happy is the man who loves his work for he will never again have to work another day in his life”)
• Leisure: Hobbies, Sports, Other Skills (Music, etc.)
Three Sources of Genuine Happiness
Costa Rica, Curitiba, Brazil, Bhutan, Puerto Princesa, Apo Island, Sagay Marine Reserve (32,000 ha) , etc. many more! (Marikina, Sta Barbara, Iloilo, Bgy in QC, etc). We need to know them. Humans learn by imitation
Living Examples!
TIME FOR ACTION
Three Solutions
MULTI-SCALAR• Personal
Lifestyle Change• Political Will• Appropriate
Technology• Caught in
paralysis of inaction
WHAT: A GLOBAL MOVEMENT TO CREATE CLIMATE OF
CHANGE
• TO EACH HIS/HER OWN CAPABILITY
• WE LAWYERS -- USING THE LAW AS ONE OF THE TOOLS TO SPARK CHANGE
• GLOBAL LEGAL ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE –
GLOBAL MOVEMENTGLOBAL LEGAL ACTION ON
CLIMATE CHANGE
• LEGAL – BASED ON INTERNATIONAL LAW PRINCIPLES (AND THE UNFCCC)
• ALSO BASED ON THE HIGHEST LAW- THE LAW OF NATURE – THE RIGHT AND INSTINCT OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND SELF PERPETUATION
WHO?
• EVERY INDIVIDUAL, STARTING WITH THE YOUNG
• TARGET AUDIENCE IS THE YOUNG
• THIS IS THEIR FUTURE AT STAKE
• ENERGY, IDEALISM AND THE TIME
• WHEN THE YOUNG SPEAK IN UNISON, ADULTS LISTEN
• INDIVIDUALS AS CITIZENS OF THE EARTH WHO CARE FOR THE FUTURE OF OUR CHILDREN AND DESCENDANTS
• Backed by the top environmental lawyers of the world (MC Mehta, Durwood Zaelke, ETC)
• MEXICO INTERNATIONAL Academy of Env’L Law
WHEN?
• Yesterday, 30 years ago
• Now! Sign up sheets
• Leading up to a climax and crescendo on June 5, 2009
• Sense of Urgency/ Emergency
• PLANETARY MALPRACTICE RESULTING IN DAMAGE TO PRESENT AND FUTURE GENERATIONS
Slide from Toni L
Thermal satellite image of the surface temperature-corresponding to sea level rise – 4.7 vis 10 mm – 2 inches, in some 4 inches in 15 years JAMES HANSEN (NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FO SPACES STUDIES
• Changes in Weather Pattern.
• Sea Level Rise.• Agriculture.• Forests (dry and
fire)
• Coral bleaching• Energy.• Health.• Floods and
Water.• Conflict.• Displacement
2009
• Jan to Feb – 2009 : Philippines
• Other countries
• March to May – Around the World
• Prophet of Doom?
• No, spark of Action!
• Among the youth!
• They are the ultimate stakeholders
James Hansen of the NASA Goddard Institute: 8-years : CC to Climate of Change
WHERE?
How:
• Petition Movement SELF-FAMILY-WORK-COMMUNITY SOCIETY
• WE THE PEOPLE – FROM WHOM ALL GOVERNMENTAL POWER EMANATES WE WILL START A PARADE –
• PARADE AND POLITICAL LEADERS • COOPERATE – PUT AT HEAD OF THE PARADE• IF NOT, STEP ASIDE THOSE WHO WILL NOT
COOPERATE – WE WILL INFLICT UPON THEM THE HIGHRST FORM OF PUNISHMENT
• WE WILL NOT CRITICIZE THE • WE WILL RENDER THEM IRRELEVANT
HOW?What can we you do?
Personal Change!• Convert awareness into
action• Turn off lights when not
needed. Do not put TV on Stand-By (80% of the electricity consumed)
• Use lower watt lights (eg, office experience)
• Be the change that you seek!
• GLOBAL ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE• Sign-Up Sheet• Name: ____________________________________________
“_______________” (nickname)• Country ___________________________, Email:
________________________________• Cell # ____________________________, Will I Help? _____ Yes _____
No• How I can HELP: (tick all that apply)Turn off lights, computers and other
appliances when not in use, • Conserve and not waste water• Separate wastes in my office/home• Recycle paper• Use more energy-efficient lights• Bring own plastic bag to the grocery, etc.• Other personal actions, as appropriate• I will join the Global Action on Climate Change and take the necessary steps
appropriate in my area of influence or jurisdiction.• (E.g., This can be in the form of letters or legal petitions to governments and other
entities to reform the transportation system, or pass and implement renewable energy laws, or legal actions to compel compliance with energy conservation laws, or other actions as may be appropriate to one’s circumstances and legal environment).
• For planned actions to be taken, please contact us at <www.thelawofnature.org>
MENU OF PETITIONS FOR ACTION
• Legal petitions to GOVERNMENTS (local and national
• (BACKED BY LAW and Lawyers)
• FOR IT TO ACT with determination
• Garbage (Solid Waste) methane
• Deforestation
• Energy Conservation and efficiency
Technology: How many
Lawyers does it take to turn off the light bulbs
What if: lawyers writes a letter to the bldg admin
to turn it off because it is wasteful and
waste is prohibited
under basic principles of common law
Those who have less in wheels must have more in road
REFORM OF THE TRANSPORTATION MINDSET
Pedestrianization and non-motorization of locomotion: OCTOBER 12
Prototype of Man-Powered Mini-Train
What can we do together?
• FUSION OF THE POTENT FORCES OF MEDIA AND THE LAW! Sign up and lets link up
Story of a Rich Man
• CPR=EEETake Home Message
ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY – the security of the LIFE SOURCES OF LAND AIR AND WATER – IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF NATIONAL SECURITY
Ten, fifty, a hundred years from now, and many generations hereafter,
DURING OUR WATCH
Let it be said that during our watch … While gifted
with intelligence & insight, with privilege and position,
with the wealth of wisdom,
And with the
freedom and
power of the
Human Will,
Let it be said that in our time, And during our watch … We did our share,
And maybe, just maybe … we will make a little difference.
<www.thelawofnature.org>
THANK YOU : Satwant, IFEJ, Darryl, all of you who will help try to make this earth and this country a better place for us and our children