“Navigating the Storm: The Transition to Sustainability” | Arthur Lyon Dahl
Baha’i Web Talks #08
This Baha’i web talk will explore the issue of living sustainably and why the Baha’i community supports sustainability.
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Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
It contains within it two key concepts:
the concept of ‘needs’, in particular the essential needs of the world’s poor, to which overriding priority should be given; and
the idea of limitations imposed by the state of technology and social organization on the environment’s ability to meet present and future needs.
-World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future, 1987
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Subjects Discussed in this presentation:
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Sustainability is a dynamic concept
The Coming Storm
Threats from Climate Change
Fossil fuels and climate change
What the current models are saying about the Earth’s future
Loss of biosphere integrity
Land Use Change
The energy challenge
Human Population
The coming soil crisis
The coming food crisis
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The Transition to Sustainability
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Welcome to the new sustainability paradigm
-balance
-optimal size
-subsidiarity
-efficiency
-de-materialization
-closed systems
How does nature do it?
Systems Thinking for Sustainability
We need an alternative to the consumer society
Values for a sustainable society
Justice
Solidarity
Altruism
Cooperation
Trust
Moderation
Unity
The Role of Religion in Sustainability
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