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Footprint
What's missing? Invitations to the sustainability transformation
Mathis Wackernagel
www.FootprintNetwork.org
Hosted by SAGE
1) What is necessary?
• Identify: Minimum condition for success
• Backcast: what would it take?
• Define: Milestones of success
• Commitment versus Attachment
2) How can we make it happen?
• How to create these conditions? Language creates something out of nothing
• WE.. You cannot alone• Get people involved (Tom Sawyer), get them
engaged rather than concerned
• You cannot win an argument• Commitment versus Attachment
Clarity and Friendship is not (necessarily) a contradiction
1. Minimum condition for success
2. How to create these conditions
Bioproductive segments
18% Biologically Productive Land
11%Deserts, Ice Caps and Barren Land
67% Low-productivityOcean
4%BiologicallyProductive Ocean
22%
Personal planetoid
Global average availability of bioproductive Land + Sea = 4.5 global acres/person
Implication of two-child families:
2000 2025 2050 2075 2100 2125 Grandparents (51-75 years) 1,000 2,000 3,000 3,000 3,000 3,000 Parents (26-50 years) 2,000 3,000 3,000 3,000 3,000 3,000 Kids (0-25 years) 3,000 3,000 3,000 3,000 3,000 3,000 TOTAL (million) 6,000 8,000 9,000 9,000 9,000 9,000
Two-child families
Implication of one-child families:
2000 2025 2050 2075 2100 2125 Grandparents (51-75 years) 1,000 2,000 3,000 1,500 750 375 Parents (26-50 years) 2,000 3,000 1,500 750 375 188 Kids (0-25 years) 3,000 1,500 750 375 188 94 TOTAL (million) 6,000 6,500 5,250 2,625 1,313 656
One-child families
• I don’t know why we want to look good or have a judge..
• Powerful forces, if recognized help to be more inviting; if ignore, we fail.
Implications
• Serves as a test for our communication
• Helps us choose between being right and being inviting
Think: Invitation
• Avoiding an argument by building on an incontrovertible, authentic statement
• Offering to contribute (not about me or you, but us)
• Being responsible for their satisfaction
• Honoring their choice (embrace the no!)
Building a vision:
• What is success?
• Milestones?
• Committed to research question, but not to particular method
Inviting Partners
1. Transparent method
2. Common stewardship of national accounts
3. No exclusion ™
4. Joint review of method
5. International support from science and policy
6. Development of standards
7. Amplifying opportunities