Matrix Revolution, a shared land, a common destiny

MATRIX REVOLUTION A shared land, a common destiny

3 PARTS • A common land: everyone is important • If we do not protect the environment…

• If we do protect the environment

Anticipating conclusions…

• If we do NOT protect our planet

CONFLICTS, GENERAL DISRUPTION OF SOCIAL COESION AND SOCIAL WELFARE

If we DO protect the environment…

Even if we do not aim at it…

Increased PEACE, SECURITY and GLOBAL JUSTICE

Or… THE MATRIX…

THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT

• Alan Turing,

STILL… THE SAME BUTTERFLY

EARTH, a GLOBAL CLOSED SYSTEM The struggle between CHAOS and BALANCE

BALANCE… WHO CARES?

NO BOUNDARIES… GEOGRAPHIC GLOBALITY

GAIA’S MATRIX: no isolated sector SYSTEMIC GLOBALITY Environment

Peace

LAND

Development

H. Rights

PART 2 – CATASTROPHY THRESHOLD

GAIA’S MATRIX PREDICTIONS, In case we do not change our course

Lessons learnt from a century of horrors

And the true nature of peace‌

Let’s just take an example…

CLIMATE CHANGE

Not only climate‌

Small and alien‌ yet still important

Even smaller‌ but essential

Ocean acidification and the Permo-Triassic mass extinction M. O. Clarkson et al.

A rapid injection of massive amounts of carbon into the atmosphere acidified the oceans, causing mass extinction

Some figures‌ The daily over-intake of energy of planet Earth due to man-made green house effect equals‌

400.000 HIROSHIMA BOMS PER DAY… 356 days a year

Calculated by J. HANSEN in 2012 = 0,60 watt per square metre

3 numbers about global warming…

Ongoing warming 0,78°C / 0,85°C = 400 ppm

Conventional Security Threshold 2° C = +/- 550 ppm

Worst Case Scenario 5,8° C

In other words‌

Positive feed-back cycles and tipping points • Permafrost • Gulfstream • Ice sheets • Albedo…

• Lightening And much more!

It’s now, and it’s real…

Non linear impacts

WARMING

CONSEQUENCES

THE HIMALAYA SCENARIO Millions on the move…

The Doomsday Clock • Regulated 23 times since 1948 • 2 minutes closer to midnight in 2007

January 23, 2015: 3 minutes to midnight!

Once more: it’s now and it’s real…

Arab «springs»?

Researchers Link Syrian Conflict to a Drought Made Worse by Climate Change

By HENRY FOUNTAINMARCH 2, 2015

“A new report suggests extreme drought in Syria was most likely a factor in the violent uprising that began there in 2011…”

A threat in a distant future?

2030: THE PERFECT STORM… -

Hitting the poor first Refugees…

Arctic Water Agricoltural lands

And much more…

PART 3 The planet of wonders What if we protect the environment?

What’s good for you is good for your planet

Healthy diet

Env. impact

A planetary game of balances…

LAND AND SOIL RECOVERY

DO WE HAVE SOLUTIONS?

• GEO – ENGINEERING?

• NEW TECHNOLOGIES?

A reasonable cost (Sir. Stern), a solution at hand..

Socolow’s and Pacala’s STABILIZATION WEDGES

Why don’t we make the right choice?

• Illusion of sustainability sector by sector/ global unsustainability • Common threat, noone’s challenge • Structure of market economy

Marrying economy and politics…

• Politics (pigouvian taxes, technology transfers, cap and trade, etc.) perceived as an interference over the market • The market dominates politics so…

LET US MAKE ENVIRONMENT A VISIBLE GAIN FOR THE MARKET!

GREEN ECONOMY AND A NEW WAY TO MEASURE WEALTH WELL BEYOND GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT • UNDP’s HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX • Amartya SEN • NEW NATIONAL WEALTH MEASUREMENTS (WORLD BANK)

MANKIND AT THE CROSSROADS A question of scale: Initiatives consistent with the dimensions of the climate change problem imply humanizing economy and a significative redistribution of wealth

A MORE SOCIALLY JUST PLANET

CONCLUSION ENVIRONMENT: OUR BEST GUARANTEE OF PEACE, DIGNITY AND JUSTICE