This document discusses sustainability, sustainable development, and how to achieve sustainability. It defines sustainability as meeting present needs without compromising future generations' ability to meet their own needs. Sustainable development aims to maintain socioeconomic systems indefinitely while fulfilling human needs and preserving the environment. The current socioeconomic system prioritizes exponential growth and is unsustainable due to finite resources. To achieve sustainability, the document proposes replacing the current system with a "Technocracy" where experts manage production to maximize living standards for as long as possible using energy credits instead of money.

1. Sustainability and
Sustainable Development
Dr. Andrew Wallace PhD

2. Overview
 What do we mean; sustainability?
 What do we mean; sustainable
development?
 Why do we need sustainability or
sustainable development?
 How can we achieve sustainability?

3. What do we mean;
sustainability?
 A dictionary definition:
 of, relating to, or being a method of harvesting
or using a resource so that the resource is not
depleted or permanently damaged [Webster's]
 meets the needs of the present without
compromising the ability of future generations
to meet their own needs.
[Brundtland Commission]

4. What do we mean;
sustainability?
 Resources
 What we have
 Production
 What we make
 Life style
 How we use it

5. What do we mean; sustainable
development?
 Sustainable development is a socio-
ecological process characterized by the
fulfilment of human needs while
maintaining the quality of the natural
environment indefinitely. [wikipedia]

6. What do we mean; sustainable
development?
 Maintain our socioeconomic system
indefinitely!
 Oxymoron
 Our current socioeconomic system depend on
exponential growth
 We have finite resources

7. Why do we need sustainability?

8. Environment
 Pollution
 Soil erosion
 Pesticides
 Waste disposal
How effective are efforts to
combat these problems?

9. Starvation and Poverty
 About 800 million
people go hungry
 Efforts to stop hunger,
starvation and poverty
in the world has come
to a halt
 Yet we have more
food than we can eat!

10. Global Warming
 Climate change
 How effective are we
at combating this?

11. Rain Forests
 From 14% to 6%
 Estimated that it could
be gone by mid 21st
century

12. Why do we need sustainable
development?
 The current socio-economic system
Growth

13. The current socio-economic system
People Business
Government

14. How can we achieve
sustainability?
 Society as:
 Technology
 People

15. How can we achieve
sustainability?
 The technical aspects of society should be
run by those who are experts in the
technology
 The people part run by true democracy

16. How can we achieve
sustainability?
 The technical aspects run with the
following goal:
 Highest possible standard of living for as long
as possible

17. Highest standard of living
 Units of productions managed by experts
 No profit
 Minimise energy
 Minimise waste
Balance production with demands
/ needs

18. For as long as possible
 Minimise environmental impact
Balance the needs of society
with the needs of the eco-system

19. Balance

20. Balance
 To balance the system we propose a
system using energy rather than money
 Energy is needed to run anything
 Money is debt and value is subjective
 Therefore not a true measure of the system
 Energy credits are given equally to all
citizens
 They decide what is to be produced

21. Enter Technocracy!
 Technocracy offers
a alternative socio-
economic system

22. Summary
 There are a number of complex problems
in the World today
 The underlying cause is the current socio-
economic system
 Technocracy aims to replace the current
system with an alternative system
 Technical aspects rules by experts
 No money but energy credits