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it]
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question
The “Sustainability”

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Prof. Ing. Michele Dassisti
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“
1 cosmic years = 150.000.000 terrestrial years
Let’s tell the GAIA story…..

The Crucified Land,” 1939, oil on canvas by Alexandre Hogue.

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• 1970 = Earth born

“The universe story” - Berry & Swimme, 1992

GAIA’s story
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• 1973 = Life appears on Earth

GAIA’s story
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• 1996 = Vertebrate appear

GAIA’s story
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• Half 1998 = Arrival of mammals

GAIA’s story
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• 12 days ago = Man appears

GAIA’s story
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• 6 days ago= Man walks erectus

GAIA’s story
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• Yesterday = the fire

GAIA’s story
 Anthropocene starts!!!!
The informal
geologic chronological term that serves
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to mark the evidence and extent of

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human activities that have had a

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significant global impact on

the Earth's ecosystems.
[E. F. Stoermer] (1980)
Nobel Prize
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• All the afternoon= armony with nature

GAIA’s story
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GAIA’s story

What’s next?
 Panta rei….
“Only one thing is truly new:
prevailing of newness…
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Because Earth changes as we

walk into .
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In the last years of man’s life he

is not experiencing small
adjustments of things he learn
as a baby,

But strong evolutions”

(R. Oppenheimer)
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vitousek,1994
Earth: Human footprint

effect
Compomponets of change on

Dominant

Effects of Human activities

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Vitousek,1997
Human dominance…
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UNIDO,2008
Million tons of oil equivalent
Human dominance: energy…
 Some human digits…
1900 2000
POPULATION: POPULATION :
c.a. 1500 Millions c.a. 6600 Millions
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FORECAS AT 2100: 11000 Million people!!

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ENERGY: 6 barrels gg ENERGY:80.000.000 barrels/gg

METALS: 20Mton METALS: 1200Mton
PAPER : 4 Mton PAPER: 160 Mton
PLASTICS: ---- PLASTICS: 160 Mton
CHEMIC. EL.: 20 CHEMIC. EL.: all (92)
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Jovane,2008
Finitedness of resources
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vitousek,1994
Human footprint: local sign
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Vitousek,1997
Human footprint on water…
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The problem….

http://www.clubofrome.org/eng/home/

<<If the actual line of development continues unchanged …, humanity

is destined to reach the natural limits of development within the
next 100 years.-The application of technological solutions can
extend the period of industrial development/growth and of
demographic increase, but cannot eliminate the fundamental limits
of development.>> Club of Rome, 1972
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Pollution.
problems, which are

Over-population.
more or less unsolved:
Over-consumption.
Resource utilisation.
There are today at least four basic
UNSUSTAINABILITY
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Jovane,2008
Feeling of resource Finitedness
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A different perspective of industrial outputs….

Finitedness of resources
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Nehete,2013
MJx1012
Rate of growth: India

GDP=Gross Domestic Product; HDI=Human Development Index

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Nehete,2013
MJx1012
Rate of growth: China

GDP=Gross Domestic Product; HDI=Human Development Index

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EUROPE: HDI 2011
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Chapin,2000
Biodiversities & global change
 TOP 10 ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

• 1. Climate Change
• 2. Energy
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• 3. Water
• 4. Biodiversity and Land Use
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• 5. Chemicals, Toxics, and Heavy Metals

• 6. Air Pollution
• 7. Waste Management
• 8. Ozone Layer Depletion
• 9. Oceans and Fisheries
• 10. Deforestation
 SUSTAINABILITY: 1987
i.e. the freedom to determine our lives
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<<Development that meets the

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needs of the present without

compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their own
needs>>
[WCED.1987] Our Common Future. The
World Commission on Environment and
Development. Oxford University Press,
Oxford and New York.
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Garcia,2007
Peace
Planet
People

Prosperity

Partnership
2015 SUSTAINABILITY
 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development
• People
• We are determined to end poverty and hunger, in all their
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forms and dimensions, and to ensure that all human beings

can fulfil their potential in dignity and equality and in a
healthy environment.
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• Planet
• We are determined to protect the planet from degradation,
including through sustainable consumption and production,
sustainably managing its natural resources and taking urgent
action on climate change, so that it can support the needs of
the present and future generations.

https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdinaction/documents.
 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development
• Prosperity
• We are determined to ensure that all human beings can enjoy
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prosperous and fulfilling lives and that economic, social and

technological progress occurs in harmony with nature.
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• Peace
• We are determined to foster peaceful, just and inclusive
societies which are free from fear and violence. There can be
no sustainable development without peace and no peace
without sustainable development.

https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdinaction/documents.
 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development
• Partnership
• We are determined to mobilize the means required to
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implement this Agenda through a revitalized Global

Partnership for Sustainable Development, based on a spirit of
strengthened global solidarity, focused in particular on the
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needs of the poorest and most vulnerable and with the

participation of all countries, all stakeholders and all people.

https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdinaction/documents.
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GAS
-20%
Del 1990

at 2020!!!!!!!!!!!
+20%

The (-20%) revolution

GREEN
SOURCE:

After 38 years……………
-20%
SAVINGS:
EUROPE 20%

http://ec.europa.eu/climateaction
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!!!!!
CO2
-17%
E-

+25%
Strive for 2025!!!!!!!!!!!
RINNOVA:
del 2005 After 38 years……………
E-

-20%
150M$ x 10years

RISPARMIA:

http://www.barakobama.com
AMERICA 25%
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The paradox of linear thinking..
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http://truthseekerdaily.com/2013/11/strange-things-are-happening-to-astronauts-returning-to-earth
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Changing perspectives?
 Universal declaration
of human rigths
Art.25
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(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living

adequate for the health and well-being of himself
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and of his family, including food, clothing, housing

and medical care and necessary social services, and
the right to security in the event of unemployment,
sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other
lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his
control.
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sustainability challenges (in the globe)

• Examples of ‘old’ social problems and ‘new’
Social and sustainability
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