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Lewis Thomas1978
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The Good Life or El Buen Vivir A North-South
Binary of Sustainability and Conservation.
PRESENTATION VENUE Earth Ethics Institute
Council http//www.earthethicsinstitute.org/index.
asp
Sponsored by
Esmeralda Guevara, Ph.D. PUCE-SI Ibarra-Ecuador ww
w.esmeche.com

• Larry M Frolich, Ph.D.
• Miami Dade College
• Wolfson Campus, Natural Sciences
• Fulbright Scholar, Ecuador, 2011
• www.LarryFrolich.com

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El Buen Vivir
binaries
The Good Life
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El Buen Vivir
The Good Life
The Transfer of Ideas Technology and Values
International Futures Forum
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SUSTAINABILITY
The Good Life
El Buen Vivir

• What sustains us?

• How do we sustain the earth?

• not with The Good Life
• Reduce,Reuse,Recycle
• Herman Dalythe Earth is a limiting factor

• El Buen Vivir
• Eduardo Gudynas, Alberto Acosta Sumak Kawsay--A
  relation with Pachamama
• Max-Neefnine basic human needs

subsistence protection affection understanding par
ticipation leisure creation Identity freedom
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CHILD-RAISING
What is more fundamental to sustainability (and
the future) than how we raise our children?
The Good Life
El Buen Vivir

• Criar nourish

• Raise or bring up levantar

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Energy and Birth Rates A biological principle
0.05 kg 0.2 W BR 100
(Melanie Moses James Brown, 2000)
mouse
Mammals
5000 kg 1200 W BR 4
elephant
monkey
Natality/Birth Rate (BR)
Primates
10 kg 20 W BR 12
human metabolic
60 kg 130 W BR 7
30,000 kg 10,000 W BR lt 2
human extra-metabolic
Size of individual/Energy Use
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Energy and Birth Rates A biological principle
Data from Moses Brown (2000)
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DEMOGRAPHICS

• LOW ENERGY USE
• Population Increase
• Examples Ecuador, Latino U.S.
• Sustainability means El Buen Vivir

• HIGH ENERGY USE
• Population Decline
• Examples Italy, Greece, Spain, Suburban U.S.
• Sustainability means not The Good Life

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The binary calls for balance
CHILD-RAISING
What is more fundamental to sustainability (and
the future) than how we raise our children?
The Good Life
El Buen Vivir

• Criar nourish

• Raise or bring up levantar

• High-Technology
• High Energy Use
• Low Fertility means population in decline
• Child-raising is growing up to be independent

• Low-Technology
• Low Energy Use
• High Fertility means population increase
• Child-raising is criar, nourish, dependence on
  family

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CONSERVATION
The Good Life
El Buen Vivir
What will be the approach to conservation?

• HIGH-TECH, HIGH-ENERGY-USE INDEPENDENT CHILD
• Sacred means spirited by God, not people
• Natural refers to an area or a park without
  people
• The Good Life means backpacking into a natural
  or wilderness area
• LNT Leave No Trace philosophy

• LOW-TECH, LOW-ENERGY-USE FAMILY CHILD
• Sacred means religious and spirited by people
• World is composed of bio-cultural land- or
  life-scapes.
• El Buen Vivir means living in the place and in
  the moment.
• All are WelcomeBienvenidos!

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WHAT IS NEEDED? Reverse transference
The Good Life
historically dominates
El Buen Vivir

• IDEAS
• People are Sacred
• BioCultural Life-Scape
• VALUES
• Family
• Children
• Conversation
• Togetherness
• TECHNOLOGIES
• Home-grown
• Artesanal

integrate

• IDEAS
• Sacredness of Nature
• Wilderness Areas
• VALUES
• Stability
• Independence
• Self-Motivated
• Consume Media
• TECHNOLOGIES
• Digital
• Bio-Engineering

integrate
integrate
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Thank Yous
Los múltiples fuentes de alimentación
and Propaganda
www.SustEd.org
Class in Management of Information
Resources, PUCE-SI, Campus Virtual, Septiembre
2011
www.LarryFrolich.com www.esmeche.com
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We are few with access to the power of
education

• 1 of the worlds population goes to
  college

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