William Rees - Measuring Our Ecological Footprint
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Dr. William Rees, who devised the famous “Ecological Footprint,” which measures the proportion of the earth’s resources any group of people is using - a single person, a village or region, or the entire human race.
Dr. William Rees has been a professor at the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) since 1969. He founded SCARP’s ‘Environment and Resource Planning’ concentration and from 1994 to 1999 served as director of the School.
Born December 18, 1943, Bill Rees grew up on a farm in in southern Ontario, and dates his environmental awakening to a boyhood day when “I happened to glance down at my plate full of young new carrots, little potatoes, fresh lettuce, and I realized that there wasn’t a single thing on the plate that I hadn’t had a hand in growing. I suppose it was like an epiphany kind of experience.”
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This interview is part of The Green Interview, an archive of resources pertinent to an understanding of the future of life on earth and humanity’s roles and responsibilities in sustaining it. The archive was produced by the late Silver Donald Cameron and Chris Beckett during the 10 years before Cameron’s death in 2020. Through the efforts of family and friends and the generosity of private donors, The Green Interview has been made freely available to all who would find it of benefit. Its permanent home is with the Science, Environment and Economy Archives of Library and Archives Canada.
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Bill Rees always speaks the truly Inconvenient Truth.
Bill Rees is my favorite and most revered ecologist/environmentalist. Stress R Us
Same for me
Ditto for me (in Tasmania)
¨ what would an intelligent species do? ¨ develop and implement various strategies. Here is one example of a basic overall strategy. Any undertaking must maintain or improve the quality of the air, water and soil. It also must promote peace and respect for everything.
Love Bill Rees. Looked briefly at the channel. I’m down the road and further on from many of your interviews in terms understanding the imminent consequences of Overshoot. I am not saying I’m “prepared”. I’m making some gambles, based on acceptance of the premise. Culture as a rationalization of various biological imperatives within a finite context will not be denied or avoided.
Brick wall or bottleneck, I don’t care. Extinction is possible. Bottleneck will be VERY narrow. Choose your preferred narrative. Your disbelief or denial is to my benefit. Nothing fair about it.
Grasshoppers taste vaguely like asparagus. Leaf springs(5160 steel) from abandoned vehicles make good knives. Garden won’t produce enough calories yet, but I’m getting there. Trapping is more energy efficient than hunting. Accept the premise. Throw the dice. Everyone is gonna play. Attendance is mandatory.
Oh, wait. Let’s have a war!
There is definitely one smart human...
It ended too soon. what a great talk. i love it.
I agree even though this talk is dated however still relevant. His disposition now seemingly is one of hopeless as the human species are just to simply moronic to change for the better let alone even understand the root problems. Personally I'm getting to the point of utter disdain for this generation of humans and I would like to see a end to us for the greater good!
If you want more lectures by William Rees - please visit CACOR The Club Of Rome Canada. He is a member of the organization
and has presented many lectures and discussions there in.
@@AudioPervert1 thank you! I know. I watch CACOR often. I also e-mail sometimes with Prof. Rees. Such an eloquent talker!!!
Dr. William Rees is right about everything that he is saying, but before we start switching to solar energy and or better mass transportation, we must address the actual problem, that being our erroneous behavior model i.e. "Profit = income - expenses. Guided by this old model of behavior, every attempt to correct climate change will backfire and we'll be dealing with an even sicker environment and a more disrupted economy. We must, as a first step, correct our collective behavior by creating a new "Global Economic Model" GEM which is designed around a profit definition that fits well with nature's economy. I would suggest this definition: "Profit = our gratefulness and loving care for the environment and sustenance that it provides to all of us." Solar energy is a good idea, provided it doesn't change the earth's orbit, due to the radiometer effect. Better mass transportation is a very good idea; however, guided by our old definition of 'profit', this better mass transportation will probably cause a cascade of major bankruptcies. Keep in mind that switching any major industry such as petro with another major industry will cause an alarming amount of damage to our environment. This isn't like buying a new bicycle. These kinds of changes will trash the earth. Unless we face the fact that the dictionary definition of "profit' is 100% backwards to nature's actual economy, we're doomed. I think my new definition of 'profit' is the only way to reverse global warming and also virtually end homeless. Please help me by offering any thoughts on these ideas. It may already be too late to form a new GEM, but it is never too late to try.
Wonderful mindset.
WASF, please pass the organic marmalade and vegan butter, we are toast.
Intelligence is highly scalar. At the macro scale, intelligence breaks down significantly. Acting with intelligence as a group has never been a long term solution. We need to solve that problem.
The developed "Western" world gobbles up resources while "third world" nations are left to starve. Shouldn't that human tendency send chills down the spines of people of limited means EVERYWHERE? It doesn't. In many ways I envy their naiveté and innocence. As a fairly well-educated, world-travelled old man, now of precarious limited means, I have become rudely aware of the socio-economic juggernaut coming for most of us.
I’m horrified that a local population in Chile is being locked out of water so that a corporation can grow asparagus for export. Ima guess those locals don’t have 2d Amendment rights.
Our myriad human mythologies fail to recognize homo sapiens as merely one of many species within an ecosystem. To US, we believe that the Earth is ALL ABOUT us exclusively. Everything else is merely a "gift of god" for our preferential use. Talk about "fatal flaws"! Our over-population and extravagant exploitation of everything on this planet is about to provide us with a brutal come-uppance. "Hubris" is the word that best describes our homocentric arrogance. The ancient Greeks were aware of that fatal flaw thousands of years ago. We ignored the warnings of our ancient forefathers, and we will soon pay for our childish exuberance and puerile arrogance.
Gustave LeBon is the author of the book he refers to.... The Mind Of The Crowd
why so few views. should be blasted from rooftops.
Because people don’t want to know. And they don’t want to modify their lifestyles…
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The Collapse of the North Atlantic Cod under Canada's watch? How could this possibly happen with such enlightened Public Policy? Eh bien, merci!
All this is common sense but they haven’t taught that for ages so we believe the economic narrative instead and this is fatally flawed as discussed
Gertrude Stein called Ezra Pound "the village explainer."
We're not tribal. Human beings are not tribal. That's not what 'nation-states' are. A tribe is like a relatively small unit, where you know everyone in the tribe, or kind of do, and it's sort of an extended family that you can turn to for actual real help in the real world, because a small nuclear family is a terrible institution, and why would you ever limit your day to day existence to such a small group of immediate-family blood relations for a whole host of reasons. And so a numerically larger but still pretty small tribe is just better.
Nations or countries are totally dissimilar, and the only thing holding them together is the same language, and some of the particular, familiar cultural quirks, as well as the brute force of law/violence, and mere practical necessity and inertia. But it exists mainly for the dominant group to be able to exploit the masses, by way of slavery or serfdom or high taxes. And is a completely made up invention that is not like a tribe at all. And people are not tribal at all. Other than being social animals, and not loners like cheetahs, who are born into a local society that's typically part of an official country, and being relentlessly indoctrinated, mainly because there would be no instinct to be 'tribal' without all that indoctrination, and so the elite class would not be able to dominate and exploit the poor as easily without that mother of all social constructs. So we are definitely not 'tribal'.....