Слайд 1Life on the Land
New Spirituality
New Vision
New Reality
Guy Dauncey
Comox
Valley
Land Trust
May 2014
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The Universe took 13 billion years to create
the miracle that is nature…
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GDP =
Gross
Depletion
of the
Planet
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Gross Depletion of the Planet
+ Yield
-
Costs
= Profit
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Gross Depletion of the Planet
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Gross Depletion of the Planet
Dead albatross filled
with plastic garbage
on Midway Island. Chris Jordan.
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Слайд 29Hansen: The current increase in global warming is
"...equivalent to exploding 400,000
Hiroshima atomic bombs per day, 365 days per year. That’s how much extra energy Earth is gaining each day."
Слайд 30If global warming exceeds 1.6°C
up to
31%
of Earth’s species
will be committed to extinction,
having nowhere to go
to escape the rising heat
Слайд 33The last time the world was
3°C warmer, during the Pliocene
era,
the sea level was up to
25 metres
higher
and we are currently on track for 4°C, 5°C or 6°C warmer
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10 metres
18 metres
25 metres
Слайд 35If all of Earth’s polar ice melted
70 metres sea-level rise
92
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If the current rate
of emissions continues much longer,
“it will become exceedingly difficult to keep the warming below a target smaller than 2°C.”
- James Hansen
Слайд 372°C of warming, Hansen’s team says,
will have consequences that will
be “disastrous,” and which will
“cause major dislocations for civilization.”
Слайд 38Which of us is going to raise a hand and say,
“Yes, it’s worth it”?
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Neolithic Era
Ancient Egypt
Roman Empire
Islamic Golden Age
10 9 8
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
The Age of Fossil Fuels
……………………………………….
The last 10,000 years
Слайд 47The Age of Firewood
The Age of Fossil Fuels
The Solar Age
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A billion years
The Sun will not begin to
turn
into a Red Giant for more than a billion years.
That’s 100,000 periods of 10,000 years
Слайд 49A billion years
The Sun does not begin to turn
into a
Red Giant for more than a billion years.
And with every passing year,
solar technology will improve
and get cheaper.
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www.cityrepair.org
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Cheonggyecheon, Seoul, South Korea
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Thomas Heatherwick
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CITY
of the
FUTURE
A Journey to the
Year 2032
GUY DAUNCEY
Summer
2014
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D'où venons-nous? Que sommes-nous? Où allons-nous?
Where Do
We Come From?
What Are We?
Where Are We Going??
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Voyager 1 photo of Earth from 6
billion kilometers.
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The Universe has taken
13 billion years
to create us
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Number of stars in the Universe
1024: 1
trillion trillion
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Number of atoms in your body:
1027: 1000
trillion trillion
All self-organized into one amazing whole
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And every atom was either made in
the Big Bang
Or in a later Supernova explosion
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Number of stars in our galaxy
100 trillion
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Number of synapses in your brain
100 trillion
All
self-organized into one amazing whole
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100 trillion synapses
100 trillion stars
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Are you conscious?
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Are other humans conscious?
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Are chimpanzees conscious?
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Are cats conscious?
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Are elephants conscious?
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Are worms conscious?
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Are amoebae conscious?
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Single-celled algae?
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Are molecules conscious?
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Do you have free will to choose
your future?
Or is everything predetermined?
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Is there purpose and direction in the
Universe?
Or is it just all just random?
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What story do you use to make
sense of it all?
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A: There is Spiritual purpose in our
life
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B: Who knows? But it’s amazing
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C: Nature is good,
Humans are bad
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D:
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What story do you use to make
sense of it all?
A: Spiritual purpose
B: Who knows? But it’s amazing
C: Nature good, humans bad
D:
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Humans are motivated by dreams of life
and wholeness,
not by nightmares of death and collapse.
Слайд 88Our History – An Incredible Journey
Слайд 97Albert Einstein:
“A human being is part of a whole, called by
us the Universe, a part limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
Слайд 103Francis Crick:
“The Astonishing Hypothesis is that "You," your joys and your
sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. As Lewis Carroll's Alice might have phrased it: "You're nothing but a pack of neurons."
Слайд 108“Whatever consciousness is—however it relates to the brain—dogs, birds and legions
of other species have it. “
“Our knowledge is but a fire lighting up the vast darkness around us, flickering in the wind. So, let us be open to alternative, ratinal explanations in the quest for the sources of consciousness.”
Слайд 109Max Planck:
“I regard consciousness as fundamental.
I regard matter as derivative
from consciousness.
We cannot get behind consciousness.
Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”
Слайд 110Wolfgang Pauli:
“It is my personal opinion that the science of the
future reality will be neither ‘psychic’ nor ‘physical’,
but somehow both and somehow neither.”
Слайд 111Sir Arthur Eddington:
“The universe is of the nature of a thought
or sensation in a universal Mind. To put the conclusion crudely – the stuff of the world is mind-stuff. As is often the way with crude statements, I shall have to explain that by “mind” I do not exactly mean mind and by “stuff” I do not at all mean stuff. Still that is about as near as we can get to the idea in a simple phrase.”
Слайд 112Pierre Teilhard de Chardin:
“We are logically forced to assume the existence
in rudimentary form … of some sort of psyche in every corpuscle, even in those (the mega molecules and below) whose complexity is of such a low or modest order as to render it (the psyche) imperceptible.”
Слайд 114What is this thing we call the Brain?
Слайд 115100 billion neurons
1 trillion glia (support cells)
Слайд 117What is this thing we call Consciousness?
Слайд 123The First Law of Syntropy
“Acting through consciousness,
syntropy motivates individual units
of being
to self-organize cooperatively
within their empathic reach
to achieve greater organizational power, range, competence, integrity and freedom
for the common good.”
- Guy Dauncey
Слайд 124The Second Law of Syntropy
“In the long run,
due to the
deep fundamental unity of the Universe, any unit of being that extends its empathy
beyond its familiar reach
will discover affinity with other units of being.
Over time, the syntropic self-organizing impulse will result in ever-widening circles of empathy,
until they embrace the entire Universe.”
- Guy Dauncey
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Слайд 150The Gratitude Pledge
In gratitude for having been given the gift of
Life, and the wonders that accompany it;
In gratitude for Earth our home, for Nature, and for the many beautiful species we share it with;
In gratitude for all who are working to make this world a better place, and all who have done so in the past, stretching far back into the mists of time;
In gratitude for the freedom I have been given to choose my path, as I take my turn in carrying the baton of life;
In gratitude for these gifts, I pledge that I will use my life to serve the betterment of humankind, the healing of suffering, and the restoration of our beautiful planet the Earth..
- Guy Dauncey
Слайд 152The vision and values of a sustainable Comox Valley
Local hikes and
beaches
Conservation, environmental and food groups
Hiking, kayak and canoe clubs
Organic farms and sources of organic food
Opportunities for volunteering
Conservation covenants
Personal stories
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Monthly Green Welcome potluck
Monthly or bimonthly hike
Hosted
by volunteer, + volunteers from groups
Time for personal “getting to know you”
Слайд 155A lot of Vancouver Island farmland is growing hay
Слайд 156Good farmland
sits empty
Young people
want to farm
Слайд 158Using small-scale intensive organic horticulture, farmers can earn to earn up
to $25,000 an acre, grossing up to
$80,000 a year profit per small farm.
Слайд 159Throughout the world, in every culture, farmers have lived in small
farm villages
Слайд 162By 2034, on any farm of more than (eg) 40 hectares,
1 hectare may be rezoned as a
Community Farm Village
and additional acreage may be leased or sold
for farming purposes.
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Community Farmland Zone
Allows development of a clustered Farm Village with controls
to ensure the land is farmed:
A: Community Farmland Zone Bylaw
B: Farming Covenant registered with land
C: Strata Farm Fees – if land is not farmed
D: Registered Housing Agreement
restricting residential units to farmers and
their families.
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100 Hectare Farm
Anywhere, BC
Farm Village
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100 Hectare Farm
Anywhere, BC
Farm Village
Cost of land: $100,000?
Shared by 5 families
= $20,000 each
Cost per small starter
self-built house: $150,000
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100 Hectare Farm
Anywhere, BC
Farm Village
Cost of land: $100,000?
Shared by 5 families
= $20,000 each
Cost per small starter
self-built house: $150,000
Leased
or purchased
Слайд 172In 2034, land zoned agricultural carries
a requirement from the time
of purchase that at least
25%
of the land be used to grow food …
Слайд 174Deep in many of our hearts is a longing to recover
what we have lost.
Слайд 175Family
Community
Honest hard work
Harmony with Nature
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Слайд 183Sara Dent, www.farmlove.org
Celebration
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Dream it
Wish it
Do it
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Josephine Wall
www.josephinewall.co.uk
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Metamorphosis…
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www.slideshare.net/GuyDauncey
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Imagining a Green Sustainable
Comox Valley, 2034
Guy
Dauncey
Earth Week 2014
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