for SSCP KAN's Workshop in Annapolis, 2017

1. Manu V. Mathai
School of Development
Azim Premji University
Bangalore, India
Workshop on Further Development of a Future Earth Knowledge-Action Network
on Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production
National Socio-environmental Synthesis Centre (SESYSC)
Annapolis, MD, USA
3rd - 5th May, 2017

2. No century in human history has witnessed:
• 40-fold expansion in industrial output
• 14-fold global economic expansion
• 13-fold increase in energy use
• 13-fold growth in carbon dioxide emissions
• 9-fold increase in water use
• 4-fold increase in human population
J. R. McNeill (2000: xv-xvi)
“Something New Under the Sun”
The century that was

3. Source: IEA Key World Energy Statistics (2015)

7. Source: Singh, S.J., et al., (2012) India's biophysical economy, 1961–2008. Sustainability in a
national and global context. Ecological Economics, doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2012.01.022
Material Flows: India and the world

8. Source: Singh, S.J., et al., (2012) India's biophysical economy, 1961–2008. Sustainability in a
national and global context. Ecological Economics, doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2012.01.022

9. Source: Chakravarty, S. & Tavoni, M. (2013). Would Universal Energy Access Boost Climate Change?
Review of Environment, Energy and Economics, April, 23.

10. Rio bisected: Halves of affluence, poverty seen at sunset.
Source: http://www.disposablewords.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/bisected.jpg
Environmental governance in the SCP realm, is confronted
with navigating a dual-reality

11. Socio-technical lock-in of production and consumption
Source: Wikipedia

12. Production-Consumption and GEOPOLITICAL power
Or, Will the Environment Survive International Relations?
Nations and peoples, willing to give up (some) power,
privilege and prestige, please raise your hands!

13.  Differences in vocabularies in the North and South?
 Rural distress and urbanisation…
 Systems versus Structures…
 Advocacy, and partnering with frontline civil society in the less
industrialised world?
 … … …
Loose strings needing to be grasped and tied

14. Do keep in touch!
manu.mathai@apu.edu.in