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||| Es gibt sie noch , die guten Dinge . Wenn mit dem heutigen Tage also ein neuer BLOG ACTION DAY ins Haus ( Oikos > Ökonomie > Ökologie ) steht , krempeln wie die bis eben Burma- Rot betuchten Ärmel rauf und wollen uns der konträrfarbigen Öko- Aktion mitnichten verschliessen .

||| ECOLOGY OF MIND

Wobei , pardon , zart angefragt sei , ob die Vernichtung der Resource MENSCH bzw. der Ressource einer ost- asiatischen Kultur durch eine Hochenergie- Junta nicht etwa unter der Kategorie einer ECOLOGY OF CULTURE zu betrachten sei ?

Her also mit der roten Liste Aussterbender Formen humanen Miteinanders . Wo bleibt das Weltkulturerbe der Verantwortung ? - Dass Beides - COMMITMENT TO HUMAN RIGHTS sowie COMMITMENT TO ECOLOGY - meist in Form von FORDERUNGEN auftritt und allseitigen Bekenntniszwang nach sich zieht , steht nur auf der verso- Seite des selben Blattes .

Also werden wir hier nicht BÖSE CHINESEN , CO2- AMIS oder abgetakelte Meerbusen verhandeln . Mitnichten auch die Statistiken herausrücken , wie oft wir die WC- Spülung betätigen , wie uns das diffuse Licht der Energiesparlampen jeden klaren Blick benimmt und was man unternehmen muss , um in einem 1900er Zinshaus zu Wien Kein Kaltes Herz zu kriegen . Dass diese Maschine hier , welche uns gestattet , ein Mini- Pli zur genannten Aktion beizutragen , 24 Stunden am Tage läuft - und das OHNE PEDAL- oder KURBEL- Antrieb - sei freilich nicht verschwiegen .

||| ECOLOGICAL DEBT DAY

Immerhin wurde das ECO- BLOG- United so terminiert , dass wir uns am Heutigen bereits 9 [ in Worten : neun ] Tage NACH dem ECOLOGICAL DEBT DAY befinden . Was das bedeutet , können deutschsprachige Leser bei Telepolis nachlesen bzw. auf Englisch @ Green Diary:

Ecological Debt Day means the day when human kind begins to live beyond its ecological means. So, as of October 6, 2007, humanity has consumed the total amount of new resources that our planet can produce this year.

Currently, we are using 30% more in one year than the nature can regenerate in that same year. Thus from this Saturday, we have moved into the red zone as per the New Economics Foundation (NEF) think-tank. NEF says that this date is steadily moving backwards every year .

In 2007, in just 279 days, humanity demanded the biosphere’s entire capacity for the year. The 279th day of the year was October 6.

The report has caused a lot of concern in international community regarding the environment. Some interesting facts it showed such as if every nation in the world had the same consumption rates as United States it would take 5.3 planet earths to support us. Similarly, this figure was 3.1 for France and Britain, 3.0 for Spain, 2.5 for Germany and 2.4 for Japan.

Das GLOBAL FOOTPRINT NETWORK liefert dazu einige bemerkenswerte Daten :

Ecological Debt Day marks the day when we begin living beyond our ecological means. Ecological Footprint accounting shows that, as of October 6, 2007, humanity has consumed the total amount of new resources that our planet can produce this year.

Each year Global Footprint Network calculates humanity’s Ecological Footprint (its demand on cropland, pasture, forests and fisheries) and compares it with global biocapacity (the ability of these ecosystems to generate resources and absorb wastes). Ecological Footprint accounting can be used TO DETERMINE THE EXACT DATE, AS A GLOBAL COMMUNITY, go into ecological overshoot, USING MORE THAN A PLANET CAN REGENERATE IN A YEAR. On Ecological Debt Day, we go into global overshoot for a given year and begin contributing to our global ecological debt, which has been accumulating since we first went into overshoot in the 1980s. As humanity’s consumption of resources increases, Ecological Debt Day DREEPS EARLIER ON THE CALENDAR .

Fiel der Erste EDD auf den 19. Dezember 1987 , war man im Jahr 1995 bereits auf den 21. November zurück gerückt . Voriges Jahr ( Quelle TP ) war dieser Minustag “erst” am 9. Oktiber erreicht - also drei Tage später als heuer .

||| AL GORE - IN | CONVENIANT PEACE ?

Wiederum drei Tage ( und ein Jahr ) später - wurden Al Gore und dem Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) vom Komittee zu Oslo der FRIEDENs- NOBEL- PREIS zuerkannt

(…) for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. (…)

By awarding the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 to the IPCC and Al Gore, the Norwegian Nobel Committee is seeking to contribute to a sharper focus on the processes and decisions that appear to be necessary to protect the world’s future climate, and thereby to reduce the threat to the security of mankind. Action is necessary now, before climate change moves beyond man’s control. ( Nobelprize.org , Press release , 12. 10. ) .

Blogger Dave Lucas begrüsst diesen Vom FRIEDENS- zum UMWELT- mutierten Preis ausdrücklich und widmet dem Ex- Clinton- Co- Piloten am BLOG ACTION DAY dehalb einen extra Salut mit Allem Drum und Dran zu Person , Werk , Inconvenial Truth ect .

Das Lob sei dem Guten Mann unbenommen . Gleichwohl gestatten wir un in|ad|ae|qu|at , uns eher der skeptischeren Sichtweise des ECONOMIST anschliessen zu wollen :

If the Nobel Peace Prize were awarded for making the world a more peaceful place, then this year’s winners - Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - would be a bizarre choice. But two out of the previous three peace prizes went to people and organisations who had nothing to do with peace. ( … ) Evidently the committee has DECIFED TO REDEFINE the award as the Nobel Prize for Making the World a Better Place in Some Unspecified Way. In that case, Al Gore and the IPCC seem pretty good—though controversial—choices. The IPCC has put together scientific knowledge on the subject in a form comprehensible to policymakers; Mr Gore has pushed the policymakers to take action. ( … )

Mr Gore has his detractors. His FILM IS PROPAGANDA RATHER THAN DOCUMENARY. A British judge this week ruled that it should not be shown to schoolchildren without a health warning, because there were several claims in it that were wrong: the ice caps on Greenland and Antarctica are not, for instance, expected to melt “in the near future”, but in millennia. Nevertheless, America is now generally expected to accept in some form the controls on emissions that it rejected when it turned down Kyoto, and Mr Gore has been instrumental in getting it there.

Na gut : GOD GORE als Nobel inzenierter Trick on Bush & the GOP mit Umweg - Umwelt- Renatbilität für die Schlachten des Amerikanischen Wahl- KAMPFES ?! - Smells like PEACE | ECOLOGY- Spirit , doesn’t it , GOOD GOD GORE ?

||| IN | CONVENIANT KEROSINE ?

Da gefällt uns spitz formulierte INCONVENIANT QUESTION des NYT- Kolumnisten John Tierney schon besser : Should Al Gore Fly to Oslo For His Nobel Prize ?

Should he skip the trip to Oslo, Norway, on a fuel-burning jet and instead accept the award by teleconference?

I realize two plane flights would make little difference to Mr. Gore’s carbon footprint (certainly by comparison with the much-publicized utility bills for his home). But as he pointed out in AN INCONVENIANT TRUTH :

Flying is another form of transportation that produces large amounts of carbon dioxide. Reducing air travel even by one or two flights per year can significantly reduce emissions. . . . If your airplane travel is for business, consider whether you can telecommute instead. ( Al Gore )

Should Mr. Gore follow his own advice here? You could argue that the publicity generated by his presence in Oslo would do more to combat global warming than the reduced emissions from trip. But you could also argue that the symbolism of staying home would send an even more powerful message about the need for everyone to conserve energy. He could generate plenty of publicity by delivering the Nobel lecture through a video link and letting the prize be sent to him on an energy-efficient ship.

Honni soit qui mal y pense . Ein Schuft , wer Übles dabei denkt . Wir schuften indes weiter und fänden es anlässlich eine ÖKO- BLOG ACTION DAY bzw. des ECOLOGICAL DEBT DAY eigentlich ganz in Ordnung , sich noch einmal den epochalen CLUB OF ROME- Bericht des Jahres 1971 zur Brust zu nehmen .

||| THE CLUB OF ROME , LIMITS TO GROWTH Revisited

Ein Rückblick auf historische Diagnosen und Prognosen mag da in Vielem aufschlussreicher sein , als manche HYSTORIES ( Elaine Showalter ) akuter medialer Erregungen . Auf der Homepage des CLUB ist nicht nur eine Liste sämtlicher REPORTS einzusehen . z. B. THE LIMITS TO GROWTH [ 1972 ] , TAKING NATURE INTO ACCOUNT: TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE NATIONAL INCOME [ 1995 ] , LIMITS TO PRIVATIZATION – HOW TO AVOID TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING [ 2005 ] .

Die in Methoden und Daten revolutionäre Studie LIMITS TO GROWTH ist dort auch als Abstract downzuloaden .

Und ABSOLUT lesenswert : Von der Analyse komplexer Systeme über die Theorie exponentiellen Wachstums ( heute würden die Webbies wohl “viral” sagen ) bis hin zum Ziel / der Utopie eines EQUILIBRUM . Als Teaser zitieren wir aus diesem Werk , welches auch / just heute einiges an FOOD FOR THOUGHT verspricht . Nachdenken über Systeme - ganz ohne BETROFFENHEIT .

||| THE CLUB OF ROME : LIMITS TO GROWTH - Short Version ( excerpts )

Our world model was built specifically to investigate five major trends of global concern - accelerating industrialization, rapid population growth, widespread malnutrition, depletion of nonrenewable resources, and a deteriorating environment. The model we have constructed is, like every model, imperfect, oversimplified, and unfinished. ( … )

Our conclusions are :

1. If the present growth trends in world population, industrialization, pollution, food production, and resource depletion continue unchanged, the limits to growth on this planet will be reached sometime within the next one hundred years. The most probable result will be a rather sudden and uncontrollable decline in both population and industrial capacity.

2. It is possible to alter these growth trends and to establish a condition of ecological and economic stability that is sustainable far into the future. The state of global equilibrium could be designed so that the basic material needs of each person on earth are satisfied and each person has an equal opportunity to realize his individual human potential.

If the world’s people decide to strive for this second outcome rather than the first, the sooner they begin working to attain it, the greater will be their chances of success. All five elements basic to the study reported here–population, food production, and consumption of nonrenewable natural resources–are increasing. The amount of their increase each year follows a pattern
that mathematicians call exponential growth. A quantity exhibits exponential growth when it increases by a constant percentage of the whole in a constant time period. Such exponential growth is a common process in biological, financial, and many other systems of the world.

Exponential growth is a dynamic phenomenon, which means that it involves elements that change over time. (…) When many different quantities are growing simultaneously in a system, however, and when all the quantities are interrelated in a complicated way, analysis of the causes of growth and of the future behavior of the system becomes very difficult indeed.
( … )

We end on a note of urgency. We have repeatedly emphasized the importance of the natural delays in the population-capital system of the world. These delays mean, for example, that if Mexico’s birth rate gradually declined from its present value to an exact replacement value by the year 2000, the country’s population would continue to grow until the year 2060. During that time the population would grow from 50 million to 130 million. We cannot say with certainty how much longer mankind can postpone initiating deliberate control of its growth before it will have lost the chance for control. We suspect on the basis of present knowledge of the physical constraints of the planet that the growth phase cannot continue for another one hundred years. Again, because of the delays in the system, if the global society waits until those constraints are unmistakably apparent, it will have waited too long.

If there is cause for deep concern, there is also cause for hope. Deliberately limiting growth would be difficult, but not impossible. The way to proceed is clear, and the necessary steps, although they are new ones for human society, are well within human capabilities. Man possesses, for a small moment in his history, the most powerful combination of knowledge, tools, and resources the world has ever known. He has all that is physically necessary to create a totally new form of human society–one that would be built to last for generations. The two missing ingredients are a realistic, long-term goal that can guide mankind to the equilibrium society and the human will to achieve that goal. Without such a goal and a commitment to it, short-term concerns will generate the exponential growth that drives the world system toward the limits of the earth and ultimate collapse. With that goal and that commitment, mankind would be ready now to begin a controlled, orderly transition from growth to global equilibrium. ( The Club of Rome : Limits to Growth , exzerpts )

||| ECOLOGY ? - EQUAL PAY DAY

Ach ja , und da wäre schliesslich noch so ein DEBT DAY , allerdings weniger der ökologisch- globalen Sorte , sondern die GENDER- ÖKONOMIE betreffend : Da gab es nämlich den sogenannten EQUAL PAY DAY am 27. September 2007 , welcher soviel besagt wie :

An diesem Tag haben Männer bereits jenes Einkommen erreicht, das Frauen erst bis zum Ende des Jahres erzielen werden. Oder anders ausgedrückt: Ab diesem Tag arbeiten Frauen statistisch gesehen gratis. ( Die Standard , 11. 10. )

Interessanter Weise war dieser EQUAL PAY DAY 2007 in den USA bereits am 24. April erreicht und National Committee on Pay Equity terminiert den nächsten Termin dieser Art bereits auf den 22. April 2008 . Bei den entsprechenden Berechnungen hilft da Tool Kit der Organisation WAGE ( women are getting even ) . Grundlage ist der folgende Befund :

The WAGE Project is the means by which women get from earning 77 cents to earning $1 for every $1 men earn. Our nickname, WAGE, reminds us of the goal we pursue: Women Are Getting Even.

Darauf aufbauend gibt es ein Formular : CALCULATE YOUR OWN WAGE GAP . Und wäre jetzt wohl KEINE Frage einer ÖKOLOGIE ? - Wie anfangs angedeutet : Das Wort ÖKOLOGIE leitet sich nach wie vor vom griechischen OIKOS ( Haus , Haushalt ) ab sowie von LOGOS im Sinne von Lehre und WISSEN . |||

||| Was Ihr von A bis Z jetzt schon lange wissen wolltet - und weil es ja auch seit “Collateral Junk” unsere Bringschuld geblieben ist : In schönstem Nachhalt liefern wir jetzt endlich den dub- elektronischen Bretonen mit Hang zu allfälligen Techno- Ausschlägen : Die 80 Stream- Minuten von DJ L’Embrouilles Alphabetic Session brauchen zwar ziemlich lange zum Laden , brauchen zwar ziemlich lange zum Laden , brauchen zwar ziemlich lange zum Laden , aber das wird man im heutigen Themenkontext bitte schön als ACHTSAMKEIT deuten . Na aber dann AB DIE POST und halleluja , da klingt der querköpfige Mix- Sticker mit der schlanken Hand wieder free and EZ so soft im Flow und ganz ohne Schadstoffe . Click to Listen Stream : DJ L’embrouille - Alphabetic Session . Der Restmüll verschwindet ganz einfach oer STOP , respektive : DELETE . |||

Links :

• Blog Action Day 2007 | home | blog
• October 6 ist Ecological Debt Day ( Global Footprint Network | about | Definition Ecological Footprint - GFN , Wiki | Media Backgrounder , PDF )
• Oct 6: Ecological Debt Day 2007 ( Green Diary , 6. 10 )
• Ecological Debt Day - Ab heute leben wir auf Pump ( Bert Beyers | TP , 6. 10. )
• World moves into the ecological red ( reuters , 5. 10. )
• The Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 ( Nobelprize.org , press release , 12. 10. )
• Blog Action Day 2007: Salute to Al Gore ( Dave Lucas )
• The Nobel Peace Prize - Peace man ( The Economist , 12. 10. 2007 )
• An Inconvenient Question: Should Al Gore Fly to Oslo For His Nobel Prize ? ( John Tierney | NYT , 12. 10. )
• CLUB OF ROME | home | Wiki deutsch | Wiki english : “This article does not cite any references or sources. ( July 2006 ) | Archive of Reports
• THE CLUB OF ROME : LIMITS TO GROWTH , 1972 | Wiki | Download Short Version
• Equal Pay Day: Ab 27. September arbeiten Frauen gratis ( Die Standard , 11. 12. )
• National Committee on Pay Equity | home | about | press release EPD 2007)

   

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