Environmental Situationer Part 2

By: Atty Oposa

Fast forward- 6 months later

danger opportunity

CRISIS

The Story of the King

Story

- The first shoe, Crisis, Conservation of Life-sources, Mind-shift from wasteful use to use that is wise and sustainable

-Rising to the claim and challenge of Humans being the wisest animal on Earth

-Law? Perhaps law, as a thinking profession, can make a little contribution to humanity’s role as the thinking part of Nature

Changing Mindset

We cannot solve problems using the same mindset that created them in the first place

Jump out of the Box-turn it upside down and shake it

Shifting Mindset from

THE ECONOMICS OF Consumption to

ECONOMICS OF Conservation, Protection and Restoration (CPR)

(david Brower)

Paradigm– dominant set of assumptions, values and ideas by which society views the world (Mindset)

CPR- cardio-pulmonary resuscitation of the

vital organs of Life … land, air, water

• NATURAL CAPITALISM, GREEN / ECO-ECONOMICS, SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS --DO NOT USE CAPITAL,

• ONLY INTEREST - PROPER ACCOUNTING!

Banaue rice terraces:

< 2000 years old

Restore wealth of the Earth’s Flesh -- the soils-source of or food!

Agricultural lands- Contour-SALT

Sustainable Agri, Urban Greening,Water Recycling, Green Architecture; energy

efficiency

Energy conservationClean/renewable energy

systemsCPR ECONOMICSrestorative Economics

Restoring Marine Ecosystems

Natural Resources and Environmental

Law

• Natural Resources Law

• Substantive and Procedural Rules for the Extraction and Utilization

• Conservation, Protection and Restoration (CPR)

Environmental Law –

Client? Government?

State?People?

Law? Rep Act 6957 (BOT Law), Rule 2, Sec. 2.2 (b) “rail-based projects, (c) non-rail based facilities (e.g., bike lanes, navigable waterways)

Other Economic Activities

Shifting mindsets Man is more than matter Basics: Security, Health, Food, (Maslow’s Hierarchy of

Needs) … (Happiness indicators – social relations, work, and leisure intellectual, emotional, and spiritual fulfillment

Restoring not only the life-support systems but also the connection between man and Nature

CPR ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES AT WORK

SAGAY MARINE RESERVE (32,000 Ha)

Anilao, Batangas Apo Island (Neg Or.) Puerto Princesa City

(Palawan)-eco-tourism and agriculture, health, sports, housing

Nueva Vizcaya (restored forests-water flow)

Many More

• Costa Rica

• Cuba (health, sports, education)

• Bhutan (Gross National Happiness)

Rethinking Transportation-Purpose?Who is smarter: Ants or Humans?

Ants

1. Traffic jam2. Travel on single file3. Do not take up more

space and materials than necessary

4. Do not pollute the air that they breathe while traveling to and from their places of work (source of food)

5. When they bump into each other, they do not argue, fight and sometimes kill; no road rage

6. Instead, they bow at each other

DISADVANTAGES OF CAR-BASED TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM

WASTE: SPACE, Square meters METALS, RUBBER,

PLASTIC, COST: CAR-FUEL-viz

rice INSURANCE,

MAINTENANCE ACCIDENTS: DEATHS,

INJURY, DAMAGE AIR POLLUTION Our insistence at

individual mobility has resulted in serious collective immobility

Waste of Water, STRESS,

LOSS OF PRODUCTIVITY AND TIME WITH FAMILY

- CONCRETE-LOSS OF PERCOLATIONUNHEALTHY LIFESTYLE

- DEPLETION OF MOUNTAINS

- LOSS OF SCARCE LAND (FOR URBAN FARMING)

SOCIOLOGY

INERTIA OF COLLECTIVE INSANITY

THINKING OUT OF THE BOX

JUMP OUT-TURN IT UPSIDE DOWN- SHAKE IT

PROGRESS IN HUMAN THOUGHT AND CIVILIZATION

CAR-OUSEL?

PEDAL? Use excess manpower

Human power

Discount

Sense of fun

Sense of community and human interaction

Sometimes words have to be a little wild…,

Law? Rep Act 6957 (BOT Law), Rule 2, Sec. 2.2 (b) “rail-based projects, (c) non-rail based facilities (e.g., bike lanes, navigable waterways)

“Our insistence at individual mobility has

resulted in serious collective immobility”;

Principle:

Those of have less in wheels must have more in roads…. Is a city made for … cars or for people?

Prototype: School of the Seas

No Motor Vehicle

Zone

Pathwalk

Filipino Design

Prototype of a CAROUSEL:

Example is the best teacher

Karusel: Indigenous Prototype

Prototype of Man-Powered Mini-Train

PINOY Karusel -- U Tube

RAIL

Before the power of the combustion engine -- ___ ? Before __ Power? was

____ power

“Sometimes words have to be a little wild… because they are the assault of thoughts upon the unthinking.”

Puerto Princesa-April 1

Marikina 60 kms of bike lanes

RAIL BUS

Shifting mindsets Man is more than matter Basics: Security, Health, Food, (Maslow’s

Hierarchy of Needs) … (Happiness indicators – social relations, work, and leisure intellectual, emotional, and spiritual fulfillment

Restoring not only the life-support systems but also the connection between man and Nature

CPR ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES AT WORK

SAGAY MARINE RESERVE (32,000 Ha)

Anilao, Batangas Apo Island (Neg Or.) Puerto Princesa City

(Palawan)-eco-tourism and agriculture, health, sports, housing

Nueva Vizcaya (restored forests-water flow)

Many More

• Costa Rica

• Cuba (health, sports, education)

• Bhutan (Gross National Happiness)

• Curitiba, Brazil

• Bogota, Colombia

• Borneo-rainfall, water, biological diversity

Formula:

CPR=E x E x E

• Education• Engineering • Enforcement

Focus on a bio-geographic unit

CENTRAL PHILIPPINE ISLANDS

VISAYAN

MARINE TRIANGLE/

WWF-thank you

Education: Informal education: In 2002: Bantayan Island

SEA Camp

Mission: To Teach by Example and Experience

W

SCHOOL OF THE SEAs

Sea and Earth Advocates

Teach by Example and Experience: SHOWCASE Beauty and Bounty of the Philippine Islands, and Filipino ingenuity and artistry

Living the Principles Energy

source

• TOTALLY powered by RENEWABLE ENERGY (SOLAR AND WINDMILL,

• L.E.D. LIGHTS:

• 0.5 – 1.0 WATT

• Renewable energy and Energy Conservation

Panch: The father of Small Renewable Energy Systems