Sustainability

Lessons Learnt
Dr. Andrew Wallace PhD Eng(hons) EurIng
Overview
The problem
The Design
What have we learnt?
Who and I and who are we?
Engineer
Industry
Lecturing
Robotics
Psychology
EOS
2004
Free time
The Problems
Economic
Environment
Resources
Economic
Continuous exponential growth
doubling
Economic
Money system
Debt based
Interest
Inflation
Subjective value
Resource allocation system
Scarcity
Environment
Declining bio diversity (WWF)
Many spices in decline since 1970
Frogs by 79%
Marine species by 39%
African elephants by 30%
Environmental degradation
Population
Exploitation
Air, land and water
Environment
Global warming
Resources
Peak oil

Peak copper
The Design
Hi-tech society
Complex
Expert management science applied to society
People side technology side
Balance
Society with nature
People with technology
One size doesnt fit all
Limits and bounds
The Design
Cyclic
 The Design
Expert management
Energy credits
The Design
The Design
Holonic
Sustainable
building blocks
The Design
Projects
The Design
Sustainable communities
Networks
The Design
Transport example
Larger scale
The Design
Communities
Sustainable
building blocks
The Design
Housing
Sustainable
Alien planet
The Design
Automation
Less work
More time to be human
What have we learnt?
Cooperation is hard
Or easy?
20% of people natural cooperate
Testing, testing, testing
What have we learnt?
How can we cooperate when you wont do as I say?
99% agree, 1% disagree therefore no cooperation
Lets cooperate - join our group!
What have we learnt?
Violence and cooperation
How do we do better?
What have we learnt?
Humans are stupid
Adaptive / maladaptive behavioural patter that causes oneself or others harm
It takes intelligence to be stupid
How do we over come this?
What have we learnt?
We need money!
What have we learnt?
In a network all nodes are equal but some are more equal than
others.
Luck!
What have we learnt?
The devil in the details!
Questions?