A STORY OF A RICH MAN

82 YRS OLDInheritance, 10 M, Trustee

1 M a day, 9.5 days, Lost it all CALL IT REVENUE, PROFIT ?

Earth: The Only Planet which contains ….

4.5 Billion years

Composed of the delicate mixtures of the basic elements of Life. Air, Water and Soil

LIFE -600 M Yrs, Man-1 M; Human Civilization – 7-10,000 yrs ago

when humans descended from the trees and mountains, and settled in the fertile plains of

Sumeria and Mesopotamia

• Industrial Rev barely 200 years ago • Significance of IR: Started to use sources of life

faster than rate of replenishment)

Cut down trees and wiped out forests, and then called it

income, Gross National

Product

FISH Catch– 90 to 95%in some, facing total collapse

Call it: Revenue, Income

Revenue IncomeProfit, GNP

BURNING OF FOSSIL FUELS

Air Pollutionand Global Heating

Development!

Revenue; Profit; Progress, Development?

DEVELOPMENT BASED ON THE AMOUNT OF ENERGY PRODUCED AND USED AND VOLUME OF WASTE GENERATED?

Used, used up, dirtied

Waters

Is this the water that my parents

and their generation want

me to drink?

Environment-Not about

birds and bees,

Sources of LifeLand, Air and Water

Vital Organs of LIFE on Earth

Trees and forests- Lungs- Land & soil - skin and flesh- Sea and waterways – blood

and bloodstreams- 70% of the human body and of

the Earth is water

Of this living planet

we call

home!

Mining: DISEMBOWELED THE EARTH, SCRAPE AWAY LIFE GIVING SOIL AND THROW AWAY WATER >Revenue? PARADOX OF DIAMOND AND WATER > Or Depletion of the natural capital?

• Called it income, revenue, and contribution to the GNP;

• Rate of Consumption used as model of “progress and development”

• “Industrialized” Developed economy?”

• CONSUMPTION???• Highly-consuming

Economics efficient use of scarce resources.

• “Development based on Extraction and ‘Consumption’

• 5% of people-• 30% of resources)• Need 9 earths to

satisfy the consumption patterns

• Is Waste Economical?• “Developed Economy”

-- contradiction of terms?

• Story of grandfather?• False accounting:

ENRON?• Story of Wealth and

Responsibility

FOLLOWING AND Using that

ECONOMIC Mindset of

Extraction and Consumption

Look what happened to the Philippines

• Wealth

Land Area:

30 M ha.

Land Classification

50%-50%

60 years ago-

16 M; 1988-800,000

Forest Cover 1999

CEBU IS THE WORSE: FOREST COVER: __%, MOST SEVERELY ERODED, MOST CRITICAL IN WATER SUPPLY, CEBUANO KAINGINEROS

CEBU-TRADING CENTER

70%

• The Indo-Malay-Philippine Archipelago (IMPA) – the CENTER OF MARINE WEALTH ON EARTHSulu-Sulawesi Marine Triangle

The “PHILIPPINES IS THE CENTER OF THE CENTER OF MARINE BIODIVERSITY ON EARTH”– Dr. Kent Carpenter/UN FAO Study

AMAZON OF THE SEAS, PHILIPPINE SEA OF THE FORESTS

FROM 3 MILLION

0.2% INTACT CEBUANOS: BLASTING POWDER, BLASTING CAPS, CYANIDE (MACTAN AND BTYN)

Destructive Forms of Fishing

31 Jan 2006, 1002 hrs:

Air pollution 80-90% of air polluton is from cars-motor vehicles

estimated at 8,000 tons per day and estimated at 8,000 tons per day and expected to double by year 2010expected to double by year 2010

Metro Manila

Solid Waste GenerationSolid Waste Generation

WATER POLLUTIONWATER POLLUTION

Share of Domestic, Industrial, and Agricultural BOD at the National Level

Industrial15%

Domestic48%

Agricultural37%

Biologically Dead Rivers Biologically Dead Rivers

16 Rivers are dead

Violations of Laws!

Adverse health impacts

TSP levels above the standards by as much as 200%

Earth’s FEVERMore intense typhoons;

Erratic and abnormal weather patterns increased incidence of infectious diseases; coral deaths; droughts, etc, flooding

Stuck to the economic model of extraction, consumption and waste:

Inertia of collective Insanity

danger opportunity

CRISIS

To Humankind: Extinction of our species Show our wisdom as a species

Crisis of LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS

CRISIS OF Paralysis and Inaction

• Overwhelmed by the Problem

• Looking to leaders who are useless and irrelevant and cannot provide solutions

• Inertia of collective insanity

ROLE OF THE LAW• LAW IS NOTHING MORE THAN POLICY

DISTILLED IN LEGAL FORM AND LANGUAGE

• POLICY – THE WAY WE DO THINGS IN THE WORLD -- IS ONLY A MIRROR IMAGE OF PARADIGM AND PHILOSOPHY – THE WAY WE LOOK AT THE WORLD

• IT CAN GUIDE CONDUCT AND SPARK ACTION

danger opportunity

CRISIS OF CLIMATE CHANGE to a Climate of Change…

To Humankind: Extinction of our species

ADULTS- a simple signature will make a big differenceShow our wisdom as a species

• We cannot solve problems using the same mindset that created them in the first place

• Think and Jump out of the Box• Shifting Mindset from THE ECONOMICS OF Consumption to • ECONOMICS OF Conservation,

Protection and Restoration (CPR)• NATURAL CAPITALISM, GREEN / ECO-

ECONOMICS, SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS

• DO NOT USE CAPITAL, • ONLY INTEREST!• PROPER ACCOUNTING!

Changing Mindset

Energy conservation

Clean/renewable energy systems

CPR ECONOMICS

restorative Economics

(eg, Northern Aral Sea

Restoring not only the life-support systems but also the connection between man and nature

Sustainable Agri, Urban Greening, Water Recycling

Banaue rice terraces:

< 2000 years old

Restore wealth of the Earth’s Skin -- the soils- source of or food!

Agricultural lands- Contour-SALT

• Shifting mindsets • Man is more than matter • Basics: Security, Health, Food, (Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs)

… (Happiness indicators – level of criminality, food security, etc. …intellectual, emotional, and spiritual fulfillment

Other Economic Activities

• Social Relations • -- family and friends• Work (fulfillment –8 hrs/day)

– (“Happy is the man who loves his work for he will never again have to work another day in his life”)

• Leisure: Hobbies, Sports, Other Skills (Music, etc.)

Three Sources of Genuine Happiness

Costa Rica, Curitiba, Brazil, Bhutan, Puerto Princesa, Apo Island, Sagay Marine Reserve (32,000 ha) , etc. many more! (Marikina, Sta Barbara, Iloilo, Bgy in QC, etc). We need to know them. Humans learn by imitation

Living Examples!

TIME FOR ACTION

Three Solutions

MULTI-SCALAR• Personal

Lifestyle Change• Political Will• Appropriate

Technology• Caught in

paralysis of inaction

WHAT: A GLOBAL MOVEMENT TO CREATE CLIMATE OF

CHANGE

• TO EACH HIS/HER OWN CAPABILITY

• WE LAWYERS -- USING THE LAW AS ONE OF THE TOOLS TO SPARK CHANGE

• GLOBAL LEGAL ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE –

GLOBAL MOVEMENTGLOBAL LEGAL ACTION ON

CLIMATE CHANGE

• LEGAL – BASED ON INTERNATIONAL LAW PRINCIPLES (AND THE UNFCCC)

• ALSO BASED ON THE HIGHEST LAW- THE LAW OF NATURE – THE RIGHT AND INSTINCT OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND SELF PERPETUATION

WHO?

• EVERY INDIVIDUAL, STARTING WITH THE YOUNG

• TARGET AUDIENCE IS THE YOUNG

• THIS IS THEIR FUTURE AT STAKE

• ENERGY, IDEALISM AND THE TIME

• WHEN THE YOUNG SPEAK IN UNISON, ADULTS LISTEN

• INDIVIDUALS AS CITIZENS OF THE EARTH WHO CARE FOR THE FUTURE OF OUR CHILDREN AND DESCENDANTS

• Backed by the top environmental lawyers of the world (MC Mehta, Durwood Zaelke, ETC)

• MEXICO INTERNATIONAL Academy of Env’L Law

WHEN?

• Yesterday, 30 years ago

• Now! Sign up sheets

• Leading up to a climax and crescendo on June 5, 2009

• Sense of Urgency/ Emergency

• PLANETARY MALPRACTICE RESULTING IN DAMAGE TO PRESENT AND FUTURE GENERATIONS

Slide from Toni L

Thermal satellite image of the surface temperature-corresponding to sea level rise – 4.7 vis 10 mm – 2 inches, in some 4 inches in 15 years JAMES HANSEN (NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FO SPACES STUDIES

• Changes in Weather Pattern.

• Sea Level Rise.• Agriculture.• Forests (dry and

fire)

• Coral bleaching• Energy.• Health.• Floods and

Water.• Conflict.• Displacement

2009

• Jan to Feb – 2009 : Philippines

• Other countries

• March to May – Around the World

• Prophet of Doom?

• No, spark of Action!

• Among the youth!

• They are the ultimate stakeholders

James Hansen of the NASA Goddard Institute: 8-years : CC to Climate of Change

WHERE?

How:

• Petition Movement SELF-FAMILY-WORK-COMMUNITY SOCIETY

• WE THE PEOPLE – FROM WHOM ALL GOVERNMENTAL POWER EMANATES WE WILL START A PARADE –

• PARADE AND POLITICAL LEADERS • COOPERATE – PUT AT HEAD OF THE PARADE• IF NOT, STEP ASIDE THOSE WHO WILL NOT

COOPERATE – WE WILL INFLICT UPON THEM THE HIGHRST FORM OF PUNISHMENT

• WE WILL NOT CRITICIZE THE • WE WILL RENDER THEM IRRELEVANT

HOW?What can we you do?

Personal Change!• Convert awareness into

action• Turn off lights when not

needed. Do not put TV on Stand-By (80% of the electricity consumed)

• Use lower watt lights (eg, office experience)

• Be the change that you seek!

• GLOBAL ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE• Sign-Up Sheet• Name: ____________________________________________

“_______________” (nickname)• Country ___________________________, Email:

________________________________• Cell # ____________________________, Will I Help? _____ Yes _____

No• How I can HELP: (tick all that apply)Turn off lights, computers and other

appliances when not in use, • Conserve and not waste water• Separate wastes in my office/home• Recycle paper• Use more energy-efficient lights• Bring own plastic bag to the grocery, etc.• Other personal actions, as appropriate• I will join the Global Action on Climate Change and take the necessary steps

appropriate in my area of influence or jurisdiction.• (E.g., This can be in the form of letters or legal petitions to governments and other

entities to reform the transportation system, or pass and implement renewable energy laws, or legal actions to compel compliance with energy conservation laws, or other actions as may be appropriate to one’s circumstances and legal environment).

• For planned actions to be taken, please contact us at <www.thelawofnature.org>

MENU OF PETITIONS FOR ACTION

• Legal petitions to GOVERNMENTS (local and national

• (BACKED BY LAW and Lawyers)

• FOR IT TO ACT with determination

• Garbage (Solid Waste) methane

• Deforestation

• Energy Conservation and efficiency

Technology: How many

Lawyers does it take to turn off the light bulbs

What if: lawyers writes a letter to the bldg admin

to turn it off because it is wasteful and

waste is prohibited

under basic principles of common law

Those who have less in wheels must have more in road

REFORM OF THE TRANSPORTATION MINDSET

Pedestrianization and non-motorization of locomotion: OCTOBER 12

Prototype of Man-Powered Mini-Train

What can we do together?

• FUSION OF THE POTENT FORCES OF MEDIA AND THE LAW! Sign up and lets link up

Story of a Rich Man

• CPR=EEETake Home Message

ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY – the security of the LIFE SOURCES OF LAND AIR AND WATER – IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF NATIONAL SECURITY

Ten, fifty, a hundred years from now, and many generations hereafter,

DURING OUR WATCH

Let it be said that during our watch … While gifted

with intelligence & insight, with privilege and position,

with the wealth of wisdom,

And with the

freedom and

power of the

Human Will,

Let it be said that in our time, And during our watch … We did our share,

And maybe, just maybe … we will make a little difference.

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THANK YOU : Satwant, IFEJ, Darryl, all of you who will help try to make this earth and this country a better place for us and our children