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Sustainable Development Sara Parkin Sustainable Development Sara Parkin http://www.obs-pascal.com/hottopics.php Sustainable Development Author: Sara Parkin OBE February 2005 Published by PASCAL International Observatory with the permission of Sara Parkin Copyright Sara Parkin, February 2005 Published by PASCAL International Observatory with the permission of Sara Parkin, April 2005 http://www.obs-pascal.com/ 1 Sustainable Development Sara Parkin SARA PARKIN OBE Sara Parkin is a Co-founder and Programme Director of Forum for the Future, a leading UK sustainable development charity working principally with its Education programmes. She is on the board of the Environment Agency for England and Wales and the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education and the Natural Environment Research Council. Her other appointments include Chair of the Real World Coalition (NGOs campaigning on the sustainability agenda), board member of Head Teachers into Industry, and member of the Advisory Committee of 21st Century Science, which is developing a new approach to science GCSE. She is a Companion of the Institution of Civil Engineering and the Institute of Energy. Formally a Ward Sister in Edinburgh, Sara Parkin has contributed to the development of Green Parties world wide, playing various roles that include leading the UK Green Party and the European Greens. She was awarded an OBE for her services to education and sustainable development in 2000. FORUM FOR THE FUTURE Forum for the Future is recognised as the UK’s leading sustainable development charity. Its object is to promote sustainable development and to educate different groups in sustainable development, in order to accelerate the building of a sustainable way of life, taking a positive solutions-oriented approach. It was founded in 1996 by environmentalists Jonathon Porritt, Sara Parkin and Paul Ekins out of a conviction that many of the solutions needed to defuse the environmental crisis and build a more sustainable society are already to hand. http://www.forumforthefuture.org.uk/ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With many thanks to Victoria Christison and Alex Pertusa for editorial and research support. Published by PASCAL International Observatory with the permission of Sara Parkin, April 2005 http://www.obs-pascal.com/ 2 Sustainable Development Sara Parkin INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................................................... 4 A reflection........................................................................................................................................................ 4 1. THE PURPOSE OF LIFE ................................................................................................................................... 5 2. BREAKING THE LAWS....................................................................................................................................10 Of Ecology........................................................................................................................................................11 That there is no Chain of Being..................................................................................................................11 Big, fierce, predatory animals are rare ......................................................................................................11 Of Evolution .....................................................................................................................................................14 3. The safety catch of evolution is its slowness .......................................................................................14 Of Biology and Physics...................................................................................................................................15 4. The natural world operates according to universal scientific laws that also apply to us.................15 d) Of the Spirit..................................................................................................................................................16 Our souls and spirits have evolved with and through the rest of life.....................................................16 Of our Species .................................................................................................................................................17 Successful evolution is a collaborative venture.......................................................................................17 3. AND THE CONSEQUENCE IS …....................................................................................................................18 An overfull world: unsustainable development ............................................................................................19 The politics of sustainability ..........................................................................................................................22 Crisis of Implementation.................................................................................................................................24 4. UNDERSTANDING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ....................................................................................25 No way back to the Garden of Eden ..............................................................................................................25 Dealing with definitions ..................................................................................................................................25 The real bottom line ........................................................................................................................................26 Sustainable Capitalism ...................................................................................................................................28 5. 21st CENTURY LOGIC: SUSTAINABLE CAPITALISM? ................................................................................32 Operationalising Sustainable Capitalism ......................................................................................................34 The physical challenge ...................................................................................................................................38 The political challenge ....................................................................................................................................40 The economic challenge.................................................................................................................................47 The spiritual challenge....................................................................................................................................51 7. REFLECTIONS FROM THE BOILER ROOM OF CHANGE............................................................................53 Adaptive Management: change despite the barriers....................................................................................57 Pre-emptive strikes: this decade’s ‘to do’ list...............................................................................................58 Building biological mass ................................................................................................................................59 Re-defining security ........................................................................................................................................60 Future markets.................................................................................................................................................61 4. Re-knitting social fabric..............................................................................................................................64 Capacity Building: learning about life – for life ............................................................................................67 Real world values: the politics of reverence.................................................................................................71 Post script............................................................................................................................................................73 BIBLIOGRAPHY ...................................................................................................................................................74 APPENDICES .......................................................................................................................................................79 NOTES ..................................................................................................................................................................84 Published by PASCAL International Observatory with the permission of Sara Parkin, April 2005 http://www.obs-pascal.com/ 3 Sustainable Development Sara Parkin INTRODUCTION A reflection. There are any number of catalogues of reasons as to why taking sustainable development seriously is important. Some are powerfully presented by charities and voluntary organisations that have worked in various specialist fields for decades. Organisations like WWF, Amnesty International, Save the Children, and Church Action on Poverty highlight the results of unsustainable development be it manifest in human or environmental degradation (see e.g. Christie and Warburton, 2001). Other evidence has been presented by governmental bodies and prestigious institutes that range from the UN Panel on Climate Change, to the
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