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16.3.2011 von Bio.
Das Grundrecht der Meinungsfreiheit schützt Äußerungen und zwar nicht nur Werturteile, sondern auch Tatsachenbehauptungen, wenn und soweit sie meinungsbezogen sind. Sogar abwertende Äußerungen dürfen, solange sie sachbezogen sind, scharf, schonungslos und sogar ausfallend sein, so der Bundesgerichtshof. Lediglich bewusst unwahre Tatsachenbehauptungen oder Äußerungen, bei denen es nicht mehr um Auseinandersetzung in der Sache geht, sondern jenseits polemischer und überspitzter Kritik um Diffamierung anderer, unterfallen nicht dem Schutz der Meinungsfreiheit.mehr
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16.3.2011 von Bio.
ACT NOW BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE!
Did you know that YOUR lawn mower, YOUR washing machine and YOUR trip by car to the church are at the expense of ever-increasing climate change? You can see the devastating results as commonplace on the nightly news; floods, hurricanes and water shortages. Dying children. And it’s only getting worse……GIBT ES ZUKUNFT?Traditioneller Umweltschutz konzentriert sich noch immer auf die Bekämpfung einzelner ungewollter Konsequenzen der Wohlfahrtsgestaltung an der Ausgangsseite der Wirtschaft, einschließlich CO2. Zukunftsgerichteter Schutz der Umwelt hingegen muss zum Ziele haben, den grundlegenden Konflikt zwischen heutiger Wirtschaftsgestaltung und den Gesetzen der Natur zu lösen. An vorderster Stelle steht hierbei, natürliche Ressourcen dramatisch effizienter zu nutzen als bisher. Technik kann dies leisten. Aber nur dann, wenn es sich lohnt, und gesetzliche Bestimmungen dies unterstützen.more
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16.3.2011 von Bio.
THE FOLLOWING TEXT IS THE 2010 DECLARATION
OF THE INTERNATIONAL FACTOR 10 CLUB
WITH EXPANATORY NOTES OF ITS FOUNDING PRESIDENT
F. Schmidt-Bleek
1. Good living, prosperous economies, high levels of employment and peace require a healthy environment, including an agreeable climate and rich biodiversity. Today, all are threatened: urgent action to change course and reduce the overuse of fossil fuels, water and material resources is of paramount importance. To this end, the Factor 10 Club in 1994 called on governments to achieve within a generation a ten-fold increase in the efficiency with which their economies use energy, natural resources and other materials. The technologies required for a four-fold increase exist and, with appropriate policy reforms, a tenfold increase could be achieved. > more
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16.3.2011 von Bio.
EINE KOALITION WILLIGER LÄNDER WIRD GEBRAUCHT
FÜR DIE ZEHNFACHE ERHÖHUNG
DER ENERGIE- UND MATERIALEFFIZIENZ
1. Erfülltes Leben, Frieden, leistungsfähige Wirtschaften, und hohes Beschäftigungsniveau erfordern eine gesunde Umwelt, stabiles Klima, sauberes Wasser und eine Vielfalt von Arten. Heute sind sie alle in Gefahr. Es ist dringend, dies zu ändern. An erster Stelle dabei steht die Reduzierung des noch immer ungehemmten Verbrauches an Fossilen Brennstoffen und anderer materieller Ressourcen der Erde. Der Factor 10 Club hat bereits 1994 die Regierungen aufgerufen, die Effizienz der Nutzung natürlicher Ressourcen im Laufe einer Generation um das Zehnfache zu verbessern. Im Prinzip existiert schon heute Technik, den Faktor 4 zu verwirklichen. Mit entsprechenden politischen Reformen kann Faktor 10 verwirklicht werden. mehr
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16.3.2011 von Bio.
of the Global Assembly of the Club of RomeThe Club of Rome calls for urgent action to avert the growing risk of catastrophic climate change. The most recent scientific data presented to the Assembly by the world’s top climate scientists demonstrate the accelerating impacts of climate change on the natural systems of the planet. Beyond this existential threat to the future of humanity, the Club stresses the need to find a new path for world development toresolve the connected challenges in the fields of environment, global development and the restructuring of economies onto a sustainable path. We insist that responsibility for care in the use of energy and resources, responsibility for the environment and social inclusion are not simply costs to the economy, but investments in the future of humanity. Governments have directed trillions of dollars to stabilize the financial system: we call for the required levels of finance to salvage the future of the planet.more
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16.3.2011 von Bio.
a paper from the Lindau Group 2009 by Paul Ekins, Bernd Meyer and Bio Schmidt-Bleek1. INTRODUCTIONRecently, the world has witnessed how market failures and foresight incompetence impaired the stability of the global financial system and with it the entire economy. Insufficient accounting methods and incomplete early warning systems, missing competence in systems analysis and unwillingness to implement precautionary policies, short-term profit maximization and wrong prices of products were among the key causing factors. As one consequence, even the CEOs of leading financial institutions have called for a framework of rules capable of avoiding a similar disaster in the future. As another, thousands of billions of Euros were committed by governments to limit the potential damage inflicted upon civil society by just one industry.While the ecological crisis does not as yet seem as acutely threatening as the financial disaster, it does have some of the same roots. Here, too, market failures and foresight incompetence, short-term profit maximization and wrong prices of products are among the key causing factors. The current market process itself is thus prominently responsible for the continuing and long-term destruction of the life-sustaining ecosystem services. While the health of the financial system can eventually be restored, this is not possible for lost ecosystem services, putting ultimately into question the very survival of humankind on earth. more
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15.3.2011 von Bio.
POSITIONSAPIER
Einsichten
Arthur Koestler sagte einmal: „About feelings of gloom and warnings of doom. These two attitudes must not be confused…. A warning serves a preventive, a positive purpose. A warning must be life-affirming. The geese on the Capitol were not gloomy, Cassandra was. So the geese succeeded with their warning, and Cassandra did not”.
Jahrzehnte lang wurden Menschen, die um den Zustand der Umwelt bangten, für Cassandras gehalten. Sie scheinen jetzt zunehmend als Gänse wahrgenommen zu werden, obgleich sie bei einigen der erfolgreichsten Macher der Nachkriegszeit noch immer als unverbesserliche Phantasten oder gar als Brandstifter und Kommunisten gelten. Daran ist nichts Neues. Die Geschichte der Menschheit ist voll solcher Situationen. Sie treten vorhersagbar stets kurz vor Paradigmenwechseln auf. Hernach gibt es zum Ausgleich immer 1000 Väter des Neuen, das wiederum neuen Machern neue Chancen bietet.
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15.3.2011 von Bio.
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15.3.2011 von Bio.
You have before you the English translation of the first extensive account of the Factor Concept. And here is a bit of history how Factor 10 came about:
It was in 1989 when I realized that our approach to environmental protection could not getus to sustainability. Progress demanded that we had to re-consider getting involved in solving one isolated problem after the after. Our attention had to be switched from the emission side of the economy to the input of natural resources. Only in so doing could we control the outputs and make the right decisions before the damage was done and payments for it became due. And what about energy? Shouldn’t we begin to worry about its material intensity, rather than limiting our focus on the associated emissions, like SO2 and CO2?
It was a difficult and exciting time. Hardly anybody believed that maintaining a stable ecosphere would require dramatically reducing the use of resources. Factor 10 I said was the average reduction goal for rich countries! What I claimed was that we should measure environmental stress potentials of goods and services with a balance rather than - or at least in addition to - with a gas chromatograph or a mass spectrometer. Megatons, so I declared, were our big problem, not nano-grams. And the ecological rucksack was to be the new yardstick for the production of goods, and its big brother MIPS for assessing the whole life-cycle of things.
Ernst von Weizsäcker gave me a chance to solidify my model at the newly created Wuppertal Institut. To some degree he even believed my ideas. As is well known: he
reached out for factor 4 later when began writing about resources and energy. When you ask him about that, he will tell you that a tenfold improvement has to be reached in the long term. His earlier finding that prices do not speak the ecological truth is as true today as ever. And as long as this is the case, sustainability is but a dream.
In my endeavors at Wuppertal I got selfless help from young colleagues who had the guts to stand up to doubts, ridicule and even abuse from inside and outside the institute. Without being able to name them all, here are those who made vital contributions early: Stefan Bringezu, Friedrich Hinterberger, Harry Lehmann, Christa Liedtke, Christopher Manstein, Helmut Schütz, Joachim Spangenberg, Hartmut Stiller, Ursula Tischner, und Jola Welfens. I am grateful for their help in bringing my model to life. Without them a large basket of publications would not have appeared, convincing the world slowly that resource productivity of goods and services play a decisive role if a future with a future is to be gained.
Lately, industry and the ministers of economy have begun to worry seriously about the continued availability of natural resources. Welcome to the debate on a limited planet earth! One can only hope that nations will not apply economic power ruthlessly in the struggles ahead. The poor people would be again the ones to pay the price. And ecologically as well as economically we would continue to move away even further from sustainable conditions. During the past 20 years we have shown in many enterprises that a radical reduction of resource use for goods and services must not lead to a loss in end-use satisfaction.
But the big question stubbornly remains: what does it take for finally breaking away from the old ways and move toward a new economic reality?
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10.2.2010 von Bio.
Summary
In order to ensure a lasting protection of the eco-system functions and services, as well as in order to maximize the competitive economic advantage of the EU, the following actions, legal provisions, and R&D pertaining to eco-innovation are recommended.
further information: Eco Innovation Plan
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