This document discusses sustainability from multiple perspectives. It begins by defining sustainability as the ability to continue a behavior indefinitely. It then presents four scenarios related to sustainability: (1) individual actions like raising independent children; (2) social projects around issues like rare diseases; (3) creating a sustainability model for the Amazon forest that balances various stakeholders; and (4) a cultural perspective about creating a culture capable of sustainability solutions. The document emphasizes that sustainability requires creative, multi-disciplinary solutions that consider environmental, economic, and social dimensions.

1. Sustainability:
The way of the future
Juliana Aguiar
Masters in Bioscience and biotechnology
PhD candidate in education, management and dissemination- UFRJ

2. “Sustainability is the ability to continue a defined behavior indefinitely.”

3. Plan 1:
For Juliana (me) to lose weight

4. What I need…
… everyday

5. limited

6. “what we do today creates tomorrow…”

7. “environment versus mankind” “mankind is part of the environment”

8. “Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth
are growing exponentially,
along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill.”
Stephen Hawking

9. Consumerism
Welfarism

11. Solutions are changing…
they must be more creative…
the answer no longer is more money.

12. Scenario 1: Individual
Scenario 2: Social Projects
Scenario 3: National Politics
Scenario 4: Development

13. Scenario 1
Individual

14. Portas fundos
Embora - video
IR EMBORA

15. Raising independent children
• How to budget their money
• Work and pay bills (chores)
• Education (discipline)
• Prepare them for independence at 18 years old
• Furniture and household items (gifts)
• Transportation (early independence)
• Savings (unexpected costs)
• Importance (value of “not needing help”)
Raising dependent children
• Maids
• Lack of responsibility for household tasks
• Education (permissivo)
• Independence at marriage or after
• Furniture and household items (gifts for marriage)
• Transportation (dependence)
• Savings (inheritance)
• Importance (family unit)

16. Scenario 2
Social Projects

17. Portas fundos
Embora - video
Dinner for three

18. And sustainability?

19. rare diseases

20. Scenario 3
National Policies

21. Scenario 3: Create a sustainability model for the Amazon forest

22. • who do we need to help us make these decisions…
• what comes in + what goes out = natural resources
• who gains – who loses = justice
• what is temporary and permanent…
• what can we do…
• what resources do we have…
• will I get assassinated for this decision?
Scenario 3
Your task:
make the Brazilian amazon forest
sustainable
What does that mean:
Ex. no further loss of species,
stop impact on climate change
Who is helping?
The whole world

23. • complex
• multi-disciplinary
• multiple stakeholders
• balance of loss and gain
• local and global
• alternatives?

24. Scenario 4.
Cultural

25. We live in
a new time.
An era when we
talk about…
sustainability.

26. What if…
every year a new
country entered into
an industrial
revolution…

27. What if…every country is built with child and slave labor…

28. What if
we didn’t need to repeat the
same atrocities of developed
nations

29. We will
change and
grow
differently

30. Sustainable development
Environmental dimension
Environmental management
atmosphere
freshwater and oceans
land use
Management of human consumption
energy
water
food
materials, toxic substances, waste
Economic dimension
Decoupling environmental degradation and economic growth
Nature as an economic externality
Economic opportunity
Social Dimension
Peace, security, social justice
Poverty
Human relationship to nature
Human settlements

31. Depression
Overwhelmed
Paralyzed
Impotent
Basically: Hide in bed and binge on
Netflix series
Inspired
Challenged
Engaged
Empowered
Basically: Get up and Kick some ass!!!!

32. Culturally, the real question is
how do we create a culture that can create solutions?
• Belief and ideas
• Gender and generations
• Enquiry and learning
• Wellbeing and health
• Critical Thinking
• Identity and engagement
• Creativity and recreation
• Memory and projection

33. “When the winds of change blow,
some people build walls
and others build windmills.”
Chinese proverb