Perspectives
Perspectives - Friday, July 17, 2009 14:58 - 0 Comments
We are a threat to all life on earth
Sloep and Van Dam-Mieras (1995) reveal why the natural environment is so important for all life on Earth. For all organisms, it is the source of energy and raw materials for growth, reproduction and development. And it is the transfer of energy and (re)cycling of matter that keeps the biosphere machinery running. However, they warn that the present day human-induced infringements are large enough to upset the ecosystems, threatening all life on Earth. Finally, they recommend that we humans should examine our infringements, investigate their destructive effects and determine how best to repair them or avoid them in the future. In this post Asitha Jayawardena has bases his discussion around this Sloep and Van Dam-Mieras (1995) article.
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- Outer and inner worlds and human sustainability
- Economy, ecosystem and human sustainability
- Sustainability lessons from the ‘uncivilised’?
- ‘Happiness buildings’ with a green topping
- Tropical forests – Planet’s heart as well as lungs
- December 2016 – the deadliest ‘deadline’ ever!
- Understanding waste – the first step in solving waste crisis
- Worthy representatives?
Indicator is an initiative of the EfS programme at London South Bank University. The EfS programme has some 12 years experience in debating and delivering EfS across the global regions.
This online journal provides a forum for programme students, alumni and others to publish material that does not fit within the usual formal, 'stuffy' criteria that academic publications generally require. It is freely accessible and downloadable content will be archived to build a valuable resource over time.
Indicator is hosted on servers using 100% of their electricity from certified green renewable energy sources.
The word 'indicator' has a number of different meanings. Indeed, it has a particular use in the fields of environment and sustainability to refer to biophysical or statistical measures that can be used to gauge the health of a system or a progression to achieving a certain goal. However, the particular meaning that we would like to evoke with this e-journal is that of
a person or thing that signals an intended change of direction Whether you believe achieving the goals of sustainability are going to require a change to the core of our being, a paradigm shift, a change in our worldview or the way we look at our place in relation to the world we live in, or more directly, just a change in the way we do things without any fundamental shift in our thinking; or some of all of the above – this e-journal is a medium for signalling the change.
- Hampton Court Palace, April 2009
- Some food for sustainability thought …
- We are a threat to all life on earth
- A tale of ancient sunlight energy with a dark end yet to come
- Outer and inner worlds and human sustainability
- Economy, ecosystem and human sustainability
- Sustainability lessons from the ‘uncivilised’?
- ‘Happiness buildings’ with a green topping
- Tropical forests – Planet’s heart as well as lungs
- “I think I shall never see, a poem as lovely as a tree” and other favourites
- Let’s build a sustainable London!