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Building an Ecological Civilization
(Roy Morrison [email protected])
A Sustainable World Is:
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Sustainable; Prosperous; Just for All;
Peaceful; Harmonious;
Not Divided Between Rich Polluting
Minority, and Desparate Poor Majority.
A Pathway to Transforming a Global War
System to a Peace System
Ecological Civilization Working Definition:
Economic Growth Means Ecological Improvement
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Ecological civilization – a global convergence of
sustainable norms for all in energy, emissions,
resources, natural capital;
Convergence is mutual self-interest, not charity;
Sustainable convergence improves us all, and
expands global wealth, trade and social contacts.
Ecological civilization means decoupling the industrial
identification of economic growth with ecological
damage.
Ecological Civilization Uses Price System to
Send Market Signals for Sustainability
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Using ecological consumption taxation, such as an
ecological VAT tax, to make sustainable goods
cheaper, and polluting goods more expensive.
Sustainable goods gain market share and become
more profitable.
Price system given proper market rules and
government leadership will send powerful signals for
sustainable consumption, production and investment.
Ecological Civilization Will Arise from a
Global Movement for Change
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It cannot wait for UN conferences on climate change.
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It must involve all of us, on all levels.
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It must mean collective global movements for climate
justice; building an efficient global renewable energy
system; making price system and market rules send
signals for sustainability; improving efficiency by orders of
magnitude taking advantage of second law efficiencies.
Fundamental challenges are political not technical.
A Business Proposition for Ecological Change:
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Trillions spent on fossil fuels and waste
represent an enormous profit center to
drive ecological transformation.
Extract savings from trillions spent on
fossil fuels to help finance the efficient
renewable energy infrastructure.
Economic advantage for a zero fuel cost-zero polluting sustainable future.
Four Steps to Drive a Twenty Year
Global Energy Transformation (1):
Step 1. Timeline of 20-years requires:
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Increasing percentage of renewable
generation and storage;
Conversion of coal to zero emissions or
stay in the ground.
Advanced Energy Performance Contracting
on a utility scale combining efficiency
revenues and efficiency savings can
finance mass retrofits on city-wide and
utility wide.
Four Steps to Drive a Twenty Year
Global Energy Transformation (2):
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Step Two: Impose severance assessments
on all energy consumed to build permanent
sovereign funds for global investment in
sustainability;
Step 3: Establish Global Per Capita
Energy Standard of 70 giga joules (19,443
KWh) and 3 tons of CO-2.
Fees paid for excess energy use:
Sustainability Assessments for Valuing
Ecosphere (SAVE) to be invested in
sustainable development for the poor.
Four Steps to Drive a Twenty Year
Global Energy Transformation (3):
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SAVE, administered by UN, and Permanent
Funds work together to build global
sustainability infrastructure.
Step 4: Establish a global organization ,
Global Initiative for Climate Cooling (GICC)
to develop mechanisms and market rules to
facilitate sustainable investments in energy,
cooperating with SAVE and Permanent
Funds
Tools, Investment, Determination:
An Ecological Future
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We face a fundamental choice between
building an ecological civilization or
continuing on the path to self-destruction.
The time to choose is NOW.
It's time for all of us to work for the
preservation of our world home, our
heritage and for the sake of all future
generations.
Contact
Roy Morrison
Director, Office for Sustainability
Southern New Hampshire University
[email protected]
[email protected]
P.O. Box 36, Newtown, MA 02456, USA
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