THE ENVIRONMENTAL EMERGENCY
Sergio Antonio Salvi
LIFE CYCLE DESIGN
THE ENVIRONMENTAL EMERGENCY
Earth’s environment nowadays: biosphere (we all –humans, animals and plants– live on a soap bubble…)
■ Earth diameter: 12756 km
■ breathable air: less than 10 km
■ sea water depth: 0 to 10 km
■ alive soil depth: 0 to few metersLIFE CYCLE DESIGN
Sergio Antonio Salvi
THE ENVIRONMENTAL EMERGENCY
Earth’s environment nowadays: transformation of human society
It is easy to understand that we are living in an situation of emergency: our planet is experiencing the strong impact of human societies. Earth is a little planet and its resources are not infinite, while population is increasing, and great part of developing countries are transforming into western type;
these new societies are much more demanding of resources (water, food, raw materials, energy) than before. We strongly need to change our development model, making it “sustainable”, in order to ensure a future for the next generations…
LIFE CYCLE DESIGN
Sergio Antonio Salvi
THE ENVIRONMENTAL EMERGENCY
Earth’s environment nowadays: human population increase (nowadays about 1 bln/12 years; UN, 2010)
LIFE CYCLE DESIGN
Sergio Antonio Salvi
THE ENVIRONMENTAL EMERGENCY
Earth’s environment nowadays: daily food consumption (data per capita; Coolgeography)
LIFE CYCLE DESIGN
Sergio Antonio Salvi
THE ENVIRONMENTAL EMERGENCY
Earth’s environment nowadays: world renewable and non-renewable energy resources (various data adapted by the author, 2009)
HYDROPOWER6%
OTHER RENEWABLE
1%
URANIUM6%
PETROLIUM36%
NATURAL GAS23%
COAL28%
LIFE CYCLE DESIGN
Sergio Antonio Salvi
THE ENVIRONMENTAL EMERGENCY
Earth’s environment nowadays: world oil production and “peak oil” forecasts (The Oil Conundrum, 2006-2011) PEAK OIL
LIFE CYCLE DESIGN
Sergio Antonio Salvi
THE ENVIRONMENTAL EMERGENCY
Earth’s environment nowadays: world solar and wind energy estimated (TW; Huffpost Green; adapted by the author)
SOLAR POWER 89000
WIND POWER 370
CURRENT CONSUMPTION
15
LIFE CYCLE DESIGN
Sergio Antonio Salvi
THE ENVIRONMENTAL EMERGENCY
Earth’s environment nowadays: deaths for pollution (World Health Organization, 2011)
LIFE CYCLE DESIGN
Sergio Antonio Salvi
THE ENVIRONMENTAL EMERGENCY
Earth’s environment nowadays: deforestation increase (million Hectares per Year since 1990; FAO et al., 2010, adapted by the author)
LIFE CYCLE DESIGN
Sergio Antonio Salvi
ANTHROPOCENTRISM
BIOCENTRISM
unlimited developmentindividual consciousnessaimed to personal profit
sustainable developmentsocial consciousness thatconsiders future generation
(e. g. UNEP)
“biocentric” consciousness thattakes in account innovative point
of views, the “other species”and other development models
(e. g. Naess, Singer, Lovelock etc.)
questioning of development
CONSCIOUSNESS: DEVELOPMENT MODEL:
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