ASSESSMENT 07:
SUSTAINABILITY?
There is no conclusion to this section. I'm not going to tell you that I know the solution. Or even
that I'm hopeful that anyone knows the solution. What I can tell you is that I believe if we are to
have any hope of finding a solution, we are going to have to undergo a social transformation on
the kind of scale that our predecessors underwent when our societies moved from hunter
gatherer societies to agricultural ones, or when they moved from agricultural societies to
industrial ones. Major changes! And by major changes I don't mean 4th industrial revolution
claptrap. In spite of all the hype that is really just the latest version of the industrial revolution.
But that is not really what this assessment is about. So, what is it about then?
INSTRUCTIONS:
Step 1: Set the scene
To set the scene for this assessment we want you to first try and estimate your own ecological
footprint.
There are probably many ecological footprint calculators on the web but we suggest this one
because the data used in the graphs you have just seen is sourced from the same site:
http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/calculators/
If this one doesn't work, you can just google "ecological footprint calculator" and I'm sure you
will find another one.
SUSTAINABILITY?
There is no conclusion to this section. I'm not going to tell you that I know the solution. Or even
that I'm hopeful that anyone knows the solution. What I can tell you is that I believe if we are to
have any hope of finding a solution, we are going to have to undergo a social transformation on
the kind of scale that our predecessors underwent when our societies moved from hunter
gatherer societies to agricultural ones, or when they moved from agricultural societies to
industrial ones. Major changes! And by major changes I don't mean 4th industrial revolution
claptrap. In spite of all the hype that is really just the latest version of the industrial revolution.
But that is not really what this assessment is about. So, what is it about then?
INSTRUCTIONS:
Step 1: Set the scene
To set the scene for this assessment we want you to first try and estimate your own ecological
footprint.
There are probably many ecological footprint calculators on the web but we suggest this one
because the data used in the graphs you have just seen is sourced from the same site:
http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/calculators/
If this one doesn't work, you can just google "ecological footprint calculator" and I'm sure you
will find another one.
