The International Resource Panel was launched by UN Environment in 2007 to build and share the knowledge needed to improve our use of resources worldwide.
The Panel consists of eminent scientists, highly skilled in resource management issues from both developed and developing regions, civil society, industrial and international organisations. Their reports distil the latest scientific, technical and socio-economic findings around global resource use.
Plastic pollution one of earth's biggest health threat facing humanity today and causing havoc in our oceans and on marine environmental ecosystems. Is there a solution to the plastic issues? Yes. Go to the Internet and see the artical -Who Will Save The Earth? It will explain and identity who is capable of restoring the earth ecosystem to its original purpose for mankinds future.
Echoing your video, French designer, I produced a series on ocean pollution based on photographs of plastic particles found on beaches around the world! To discover: 1011-art.blogspot.com/p/ordre-du-monde.html Draw to raise awareness!
Fantastic to see that economic growth has been decoupled from emissions in most of Europe. Plenty more sectors to work on so let get to it! Using more hempcrete in the building industry would help. ru-vid.com/group/PLf1PE183xZVLUEs_5jiaHpzV2Jk2OFggs&si=Cb9eCtl_sFpWseSS
Lifestyle is the biggest driver of demand for natural resources (including energy use). Which lifestyle creates additional demand and which lifestyle reduces our demand? Most of us are smart enough to figure this out. Changing our lifestyle will change our demands...!
A much better solution is to use the electricity to make liquid fuel which can be used in the cars vi have now, and in the cars of the future with fuel cells, it can be stored without los, distributed via the infrastructure we already have.
Always enjoy listening to professor Sachs. He makes you feel positive about the world again. Leaders should listen to him. May he lives a healthy long life.
The masses don't care about the truth, only if it's finger pointing at others. This is why inequality won't change, nor will we mitigate the changing climate. In a few decades, this planet will be a disease ridden hell hole, with storms, droughts, floods, armed conflicts, uprisings, multiresistant microbial infections, viral pandemics, food scarcity etc. Change yes, we want change, just don't change our lifestyle, and don't make us pay, and lets protest mask mandates while we're at it, but 50% wont't even vote...
Too much wonky tail chasing. Instead, KISS: 1. Taxpayer funded Health insurance for EVERY American the day you are born. 2. LIFELONG taxpayer funded education and training for EVERY American. 3. 20% reduction in DOD budget with 40% of remaining budget dedicated to cyber and space security national defenses. So in essence, we De-couple healthcare and education from employers and employment. Period! That is the key: Decoupling. The outcome is TRUE empowerment of each and every American. And in response the natural inclination, and outcome, is to solve our own problems with the most efficacy and equanimity. Bureaucratic budgets are NOT the answer. Never were, are, or will be. Empowerment of the human spirit IS. Decouple dependence from and by “the government” and the rest takes care of itself.
Well said, I wish he is a president that will turn the US in the right direction but the devils will against it. In order to balance the world, we need a one-world government where all the politicians good and bad under one roof and let them fight for fairness.
First is To Revamp the US School Education System. That is where the Future Generations Learn & Educate themselves to learn Right ( TRUTH ) from Wrong (LIES ). Make Learning the Right Skills rather than Dabbling in Social Media , Game Cultures , Gender Specifics , Transgender Acceptance without a Clue through Immaturity of their Age if that helps in anyway in their Future.
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Global co-operation. What could possibly go wrong? Japan discovers how to kill growth and everyone copies them. Japan led the way and everyone followed. At 25.30 mins you can see the super imposed private debt-to-GDP ratios. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vAStZJCKmbU.html What Japan does in the 1980s; the US, the UK and Euro-zone do leading up to 2008 and China has done more recently. The PBoC saw the financial crisis coming unlike the BoJ, ECB, BoE and the FED. It’s the economic growth model of the Roaring Twenties that always ends in a financial crisis. Neoclassical economics has still got its 1920s problems. The Chinese have reached the end of the line with the debt fuelled, Roaring Twenties growth model and need to find out how an economy really works. President Xi has got his hands full. “Oh dear, we did what you did in Japan. Now we’ve had a financial crisis and are facing a Great Depression just like you.” US, UK and Euro-zone policymakers in 2008. Japan could study the Great Depression to avoid this fate. (The US had done the same thing in the 1920s (see graph above), it always seems to happen with neoclassical economics) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8YTyJzmiHGk.html How did Japan avoid a Great Depression? They saved the banks How did Japan kill growth and inflation for the next thirty years? They left the debt in place and the repayments on that debt killed growth and inflation (Japanification) Japan discovered how to avoid a Great Depression and deliver Japanification instead. The West copied this solution after 2008 and can’t work out why things haven’t been the same since.
Dr. Sachs' comments about the significance of the UN is a most prescient comment. Since China seems to be doing so much, Dr. Sachs seems to be avoiding the various steps that country has been following as an example of what the US should be doing, so far as what the West should be doing. Much of what he says intimates the Chinese example. We must somehow shove the war, conflict, containment instigators aside, de-fang them and pursue what needs to be done to overcome are push toward self-destruction.
So all of us watching needs to share in as many ways as possible. I live in a very red rural community so I was thinking of hitting some of the major points in a letter to the editor in local newspaper. Plus sending it to other papers in the area. This includes a community that is a company town which developed around a major chemical company. Any other ideas, I love love to hear and open to cooperation in getting these ideas out.
I enjoy listening to this man, as I do to several other progressive thinkers. However, one thing just keeps bothering me. There is so much talk about sustainability. Sustainability of resources, reduction in emissions, management ....... That is great! We live in a closed system, I think that population sustainability is also a necessary issue. It hardly goes to reason that we try to make a loop of resources and have a continuing increase in population growth that needs more resources. Population has to be talked about.
Jay, you seem to have been absent when the world has learned that we have a distribution problem, not a population problem. Perhaps your understandings should join the rest of us in the 21st century. The latest thing is that women, on a worldwide scale, are more concerned with pursuing their careers, not having children.
With both overall human fertility levels and reproduction rates across the globe turning negative, I think the corporate controlled UN Agenda 2021 and Agenda 2030 are well on track. I don't think it is human over-population that you should be worrying about but under-population.
I think it's much more the way our populations are being managed or really unmanaged in regards to urban, rural housing planning, not reducing the need for two cars per family or even a car at all by better public transportation which many other countries already have and maintain. Solar, wind, geothermal power sources built into homes, multifamily buildings and buildings certified energy smart, houses/public and private buildings which I think are just as renewable as solar or whatever because the amount of energy used is so low it equals or beats renewables/fossil fuel dual capable. Scrapping current regulation, legislative institutions (including the people in place or charge) they are absolutely corrupted beyond reform or any more opportunities to cheat, Rob, hurt people.
USA would better focus more on global public services rather than banning China. It would be definitely to fail if USA keeps banning China from its global services. Right now the biggest services the earth needs is vaccine distribution.
Dr. Jeff Sachs is a magnificent ambassador for thinking about how to change the interventionist US, which is run by utterly rapacious oligarchs. This video should have 10 million views. Unfortunately, the technology of which Dr. Sachs speaks is exactly what has numbed out most Americans such that the duopoly of media and our intractable two-party system can endlessly manufacture consent for the very worst federal legislation (e.g., still no public option in a pandemic in which 15 million have lost health insurance) and the War Machine. Americans are the most ignorant residents on the globe, given our resources and what could have been. Unfortunately, we are a failing state, and this will become much more evident once millions begin to get evicted from their homes/apartments this summer. The continual ruination of the middle class is going along just as the plutocrats like Trump and Biden planned.
America doesn’t have a chance long term as a nation state. The plutocrats will sell our nation to leading bidders around the world. Only a matter of time.
Wonderful idea! Before 9/11, they more closely resembled that because Germans and others would visit and purchase products at U.S. bases in Germany, for example. We need much more international collaboration. However, it is an obstacle for Americans to even employ other Americans who lived abroad for many years.
They are approved with the idea of cooperation on security and generally lead to more security that countries think outweigh the benefits (and might if you aren’t living in Yemen, Pakistan, Somalia, Mali, Iraq etc.) The problem is that the “cooperation” is very lopsided with most people seeing no benefit (local military leaders might not be the best advocate for what’s best for people who would have guessed 😒) and if the relationship turns ugly like in Iraq you are left with huge hole in your wallet with no recourse.
