The Proceedings of Mechanical Engineering Congress, Japan
Online ISSN : 2424-2667
ISSN-L : 2424-2667
2013
Session ID : K02300
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K02300 Sustainability learning from lives
Takaaki NIREN
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From 1990s to now the highest priority of the global community is to attain sustainability. Because we already come up to the Earth's "planetary boundaries" as climate change, abnormal phenomena of the oceans, excessive use of fresh water, and mass extinction of species. On the contrary the universe of lives lasts 3.8 billion years, where three principles have been formulated and maintained. Those are 1) to utilize abundant local substance and to cycle substance within ecosystem, 2) to make closed ecosystem by balancing the population of species, and 3) to build the order by self-organization of different lives. If we can learn from wisdom of lives, human society will come close to sustainability.
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