4 root causes of unsustainability

[@learnsustainability]

Thanks!! This is true! I am trying to keep the videos around 5 minutes or less and I am hoping to post one about social science and human needs at a later point... Stay tuned :-)

[@danicascas]

Hi from Colombia! Thank you very much for such amazing videos. The definition I have in my head for sustainability is: the capacity of human society to adapt its cycles and activities to nature's transformation in its time and space lengths.

[@learnsustainability]

Daniela Castaño Vásquez That's a pretty good one! Thanks for sharing.

[@vancejaiden6171]

I know im randomly asking but does anyone know a tool to get back into an Instagram account? I stupidly forgot my password. I love any tricks you can give me!

[@davidumstot588]

Alex, Thanks for this. I will share both videos with a graduate level class I am teaching this spring at San Diego State University during our focused sustainability unit.

[@learnsustainability]

Hi David, This is awesome! Thanks for sharing. Let me know what they think and how much they get out of it.

[@davidumstot588]

Sustainability Illustrated Alex, I shared all 5 videos with my masters level students this past week. They unanimously gave you thumbs up! Back casting particularly resonated. Thank you for all you contribute to education on these topics.

[@learnsustainability]

Awesome! Thanks a lot for following up!

[@vinp762]

Awesome work buddy. A good exposition on the causes of environmental crisis. Thanks alot for the video

[@Katrinegraversen]

This serie is great! Good Job!

[@learnsustainability]

Katrine Graversen Thank you Katrine! Very much appreciated.

[@MrEddu1973]

Hi Alex, great animation. It seems that the explanation of the social aspect of science is missing from the first video. (Social species, trust, Fundamental human needs, etc.).

[@christinejacquemin3818]

Hi Alex This is great I am working on these issues and found your vdos quite didactic simple, short and clear. I have just posted this on my page of the EXO Foundation which I handle. Is there a possibility of adapting to thai, Burmese, Vietnamese, Khmer language, so I can disseminate in these countries I could get it translated but cannot do the adaptation on the drawing; Can you do that? I work initially in tourism and believe holidays are a great time for people to get interested to these issues and become aware and hopefully committed. I would be happy to exchange further with you over Skype if you have time. Bravo Alex c'est top

[@learnsustainability]

Hi Christine, Thanks a lot for your message! It is fairly easy to add subtitles. I send you the files, you translate them and I post them on KZbin. Please send me an email to [e-mail] to discuss it all and connect on Skype. Alex

[@karlasessindilascio7149]

Hi I really liked your videos and I want to help you to spread it. I'm portuguese native speaker so I was wondering if i could translate these two videos (part 1 and 2) to my language. Let me know what do you think.

[@learnsustainability]

Hi Karla, Thanks a lot, this is great and very generous of you! Part 1 already has subtitles in Portuguese but from Brazil. Please send me an email to [e-mail] and I will send you back the subtitles files so you can translate them. Does that work? Thanks a lot, Alex

[@ximenapacheco8325]

hey alex where do you make your videos is UURGENT

[@soberguy2913]

didn't understand that last social cause ? can anyone explain it ?

[@learnsustainability]

Thanks for your question: I posted another video detailing the the social one kzbin.info/www/bejne/fKq3aoeDod92bNU Please feel free to have a look and to let me know if you have more questions.

[@Snorutsugaren]

Hi, the english subtitles seem to be a bit of

[@learnsustainability]

4 root causes of un-sustainability now available with Spanish & Catalan subtitles: alturl.com/uzmzh Big thanks to Josep Simona :-)

[@A.wahabafridi]

woo good job

[@yesenialeon7207]

what about animal agriculture? please watch Cowspiracy

[@quantumaravinth]

I want to contribute to you work through patreon. But haven't started earning yet. When I start earning, we will collaborate to a great deal. Promise

[@learnsustainability]

No worries. Thanks for posting a message!

[@espgroup6528]

is my 5.0 litre bmw engine unsustainable?

[@DingoHammer]

This is the second of your videos I have watched that does not mention population. You and the scientists that all agree with one another do not have a solution.

[@learnsustainability]

+DingoHammer Thank you for your comment. Population is a complex topic that I will try to address in a future video. Population may or may not impact our capacity to not contribute anymore to the 4 root causes of unsustainability as described in this video. I personally think that we can comply with those conditions with a much larger population than we currently have. There are several indicators of that and here are two of them: 1) 20% of the world's population currently uses 80% of the resource so it is definitely these 20% (which I am part of) who have the most difficulties complying with the 4 root causes of unsustainability; 2) we currently waste 50% of the food we produce worldwide so, technically, we could feed 14 billions people today (to talk only about food as an example).

[@DingoHammer]

+Sustainability Illustrated Population can grow to unsustainability even if the four root causes of unsustainability are eliminated.

[@RonPaulgirls]

you kind of messed that one up. you forgot to put it all in the context of population as the multiplier. then you got off on the factory worker issue which does not relate to sustainability but more to quality of life

[@learnsustainability]

Interesting perspective! Thanks for your comment! This is not only my personal opinion but the result of a scientific consensus. So we can choose to agree with it or not but it does not change the fact that 50 scientists agreed on these being the root causes of unsustainability regardless of the size of the population. Regarding the factory worker, it is only one example of a way we systematically create barriers for people to meet their need and you are right to say that it relates to quality of life but it is also a root cause of unsustainability: people cannot be expected to comply to the other three if they are not able to meet their own basic needs. I hope this helps clarify a little :-)

[@RonPaulgirls]

Sustainability Illustrated i happen to know a lot about these issues. 1. i was referring to the i pat fromula. if you don't have population in your formula then your formula is incomplete it's that simple. 2. population got played down for all kinds of scammy reasons such as corporations taking advantage of illegal alien labor and all kinds of nonsense. population is the key multiplier to everything else so it absolutely can't be ignored or under emphasized. 3. exploitation of the masses in underdeveloped countries has zero to do with ecological foot prints. that's a quality of life issue developed in the modern world. yes the factory cultures create a mess on their own with urbanization, but those are separate issues. exploitation of the peon masses has been going on for maybe 10,000 years and had little effect on the ecologies because the numbers were small. 4. most scientists aren't very bright and many fell for all kinds of global warming al gore nonsense, which didn't even need to be argued because of the need to protect the environments from depletion and pollution anyway. so i wouldn't be hanging my hat on what a group of scientists may be saying because most of it is typically self serving. look at what most of them said about diet for example as little as a few decades ago.

[@learnsustainability]

RonPaulgirls This is great! I totally agree that issues with social systems such as working conditions in developing countries are very different from impacts on natural systems. I also agree that not all scientists are very bright and I remember what some of them said about climate change and formula being better for babies than their mother's breast milk. I personally have a scientific background myself and I have to say that these root causes made sense to me and I have had success using them in my work as a sustainability consultant. There has been a consensus and they have been peer published, peer reviewed and refined for about 25 years, unlike the diet and climate change mistakes mentioned above. I also agree that population plays a role in how we will become sustainable but I think that the root causes are the same weather we are 7 billion or 10 billion. They come from the natural cycles on planet Earth and they are what they are regardless of how many human beings are alive. Do you have anything (readings or others) to recommend on taking the impact of population into consideration?

[@RonPaulgirls]

Sustainability Illustrated the population factor is the simple math involved in any sustainability equation as the footprint and biocapacity or i=pat formulas explain. if it takes x amount of space, energy and other resources to sustain one person then it will take x times 2 to sustain two persons and so on. the real problem is that we still live in a junk world of technology and we have a long long way to go before all of our production is dynamic and conservative of resources, so it's a real mess.politicians like al gore live on the votes of the ignorant so they need a continued supply of ignorant people to support their campaigns. al gore was caught saying that he thought rocks were millions of degrees under the surface of the earth and conana obrian is such a moron he wasn't bright enough to catch is, so i don't trust any of these people's opinions, i'm merely interested in the science and data behind any of this. we had population growth under control in the usa by the early seventies and then it all got wrecked by massive immigration and illegal immigration for cheap labor and political reasons. just like slavery caused all kinds of problems in the usa and still has a load on the usa today. my last video covers some of this. the solution is for each country to make it a passion that all activities, products and services mesh with their environments in a clean and balanced way in as libertarian manner as possible so you don't have massive police state beauracracies micro managing everything with massive inefficiency, resulting in the destruction of creativity and freedom in general. again the more people you have the more problems you have along with some occasional problem solvers.

[@naturallaw1733]

+RonPaulgirls No this is all Propaganda. We have No Population issue. We have a LandLord issue today. Too many people Own to much of the Land and this keeps people from being able to spread out. If you look at Earth from the skyy you can easily see Huge areas of Land with few people living on it. You can probably even fit Every single person of the World within one of the bigger countries alone.