Building an Ecological Civilization (Roy Morrison roy.morrison114@yahoo.com)

1. Building an Ecological Civilization(Roy Morrison roy.morrison114@yahoo.com) A Sustainable World Is: • Sustainable; Prosperous; Just for All; Peaceful; Harmonious; • Not Divided Between Rich Polluting Minority, and Desparate Poor Majority. • A Pathway to Transforming a Global War System to a Peace System

2. Ecological Civilization Working Definition: Economic Growth Means Ecological Improvement • Ecological civilization – a global convergence of sustainable norms for all in energy, emissions, resources, natural capital; • Convergence is mutual self-interest, not charity; • Sustainable convergence improves us all, and expands global wealth, trade and social contacts. • Ecological civilization means decoupling the industrial identification of economic growth with ecological damage.

3. Ecological Civilization Uses Price System to Send Market Signals for Sustainability • Using ecological consumption taxation, such as an ecological VAT tax, to make sustainable goods cheaper, and polluting goods more expensive. • Sustainable goods gain market share and become more profitable. • Price system given proper market rules and government leadership will send powerful signals for sustainable consumption, production and investment.

4. Ecological Civilization Will Arise from aGlobal Movement for Change • It cannot wait for UN conferences on climate change. • It must involve all of us, on all levels. • It must mean collective global movements for climate justice; building an efficient global renewable energy system; making price system and market rules send signals for sustainability; improving efficiency by orders of magnitude taking advantage of second law efficiencies. • Fundamental challenges are political not technical.

5. A Business Proposition for Ecological Change: • Trillions spent on fossil fuels and waste represent an enormous profit center to drive ecological transformation. • Extract savings from trillions spent on fossil fuels to help finance the efficient renewable energy infrastructure. • Economic advantage for a zero fuel cost--zero polluting sustainable future.

6. Four Steps to Drive a Twenty Year Global Energy Transformation (1): Step 1. Timeline of 20-years requires: • Increasing percentage of renewable generation and storage; • Conversion of coal to zero emissions or stay in the ground. Advanced Energy Performance Contracting on a utility scale combining efficiency revenues and efficiency savings can finance mass retrofits on city-wide and utility wide.

7. Four Steps to Drive a Twenty Year Global Energy Transformation (2): • Step Two: Impose severance assessments on all energy consumed to build permanent sovereign funds for global investment in sustainability; • Step 3: Establish Global Per Capita Energy Standard of 70 giga joules (19,443 KWh) and 3 tons of CO-2. • Fees paid for excess energy use: Sustainability Assessments for Valuing Ecosphere (SAVE) to be invested in sustainable development for the poor.

8. Four Steps to Drive a Twenty Year Global Energy Transformation (3): • SAVE, administered by UN, and Permanent Funds work together to build global sustainability infrastructure. Step 4: Establish a global organization , Global Initiative for Climate Cooling (GICC) to develop mechanisms and market rules to facilitate sustainable investments in energy, cooperating with SAVE and Permanent Funds

9. Tools, Investment, Determination: An Ecological Future • We face a fundamental choice between building an ecological civilization or continuing on the path to self-destruction. • The time to choose is NOW. • It's time for all of us to work for the preservation of our world home, our heritage and for the sake of all future generations.

10. Contact Roy Morrison Director, Office for Sustainability Southern New Hampshire University sustainabiity@snhu.edu roy.morrison114@yahoo.com P.O. Box 36, Newtown, MA 02456, USA

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