Explaining the factors that affect global wellbeing, hurting the environment and the proper solutions to overcome them all.

1. Sustainability
Is Our Only
Salvation!
Professor Phillip Andrews
April 2021
Yes, I am a believer!

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4. Let’s Discuss!
How do you
see things?

5. Some People Will Do Anything for Money
They kill:
• Elephants for their tasks
• Rhinos for their horns
• Other animals for their unique features
• Furry animals for their furs
• Tasty animals and birds for their meat
• Tasty fish for their meat
• Forests and jungles to exploit the lands and all the resources
• Anything that can be sold to mindless and heartless buyers
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6. An Alarming Statistic
• The number of cattle slaughtered around the world in 2019 was
324,518,029, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO). When divided by the number of days in the year
this means that roughly 890,000 cattle were slaughtered for their
meat every single day.
• For more alarming statistics, please visit:
• https://sentientmedia.org/how-many-animals-are-killed-for-food-every-day/
• https://terrastendo.net/2018/01/10/the-global-juggernaut-of-animal-slaughter/
• https://worldanimalfoundation.org/advocate/how-many-animals-killed-each-
year/
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7. Another Alarming
Statistic
• Scientists estimate
that 100 to 10,000 species
— from microscopic
organisms to large plants
and animals — go extinct
each year. This is 100 to
1,000 times faster than
historic extinction rates.
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https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/12/9/20993619/biodiversity-crisis-extinction
https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2015/06/19/75-percent-of-animal-species-to-be-wiped-
out-in-sixth-mass-extinction

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Factors:
• Rapid population
growth
(overpopulation)
• Expansion of cities
• Inefficient use of
lands
• Deforestation
• Land Decertification
• Soil Erosion
• Bad Chemicals
• Extreme Droughts
• Extreme Fires
• Etc.

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More than 140M children are born every year!
60M people die every year.
Net Gain = 80M+ more people every year!
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/how-many-humans-have-ever-lived/

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8. Pollution.
9. Crime.
10. Buffoonery.

12. Key Realization
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Resources
People Need
Population
Resources include metals, water, land,
food, plants, animals, fossil fuels!

13. Can 10+ billion people live and eat
well on this planet?
Can 10+ billion people live and eat
well on this planet?
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14. Some Interesting Statistics.
Expect To See These Numbers Explode In The Decades Ahead!
• Losing 25,000 people to hunger every day (over 9M per year)
https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/losing-25000-hunger-every-day
• Another 5M people die every year from lack of water or poor water.
• A UN conference on water says 26% of the world's population doesn't have
access to safe drinking water and 46% lack access to basic sanitation.
• An estimated 12.6M deaths each year are attributable to unhealthy
environments. https://www.who.int/news/item/15-03-2016-an-estimated-
12-6-million-deaths-each-year-are-attributable-to-unhealthy-
environments#:~:text=An%20estimated%2012.6%20million%20deaths%20e
ach%20year%20are%20attributable%20to%20unhealthy%20environments
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15. WHY? WHY? WHY?
Are Our Governments failing to protect our planet?
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16. This Is NOT The Way To Increase Agriculture
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The Amazon Jungle is
considered to be the
lungs of this planet.
And yet the Brazilian
Government allows the
peasants to destroy it!
That way the peasants
won’t cause trouble for
the government!

17. The Essence Of Sustainability
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20. What
We
Need
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Capitalism is a great system … except for its complete disregard for
societal and planetary wellbeing.

21. The Department Of Wellbeing Needs To Focus On
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)
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Governments must inform the
public and create the right
alerts and alarms, get the
public involved (because it is
everyone’s problem), and
create the right agencies that
take the right timely actions.
Fact: Only 1/3 of recyclable
materials get recycled and
composted. The rest of them
are thrown out with garbage.
Sustainable
Practices

22. What Are Some Great Sustainable Practices
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More Great Sustainable Practices

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u0NrMuORgk

25. What Else Is Unsustainable?
Here Are Two New Awarenesses!
1. Our lifestyles. We would need 5.1 Earths if everyone lived like
Americans! So, what does this imply? Let 3rd World countries
remain in poverty?
2. Our City Designs and Poleodomia (Urban Planning). Our current
designs in most cities are based on archaic trends, mentalities, and
necessities. They don’t fit well with the future.
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Medieval Mentality

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20th Century Mentality

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Urban Sprawl is NOT good for agriculture and the environment!

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Every year, more than 1
in 5 New Yorkers has
symptoms of a mental
disorder.
Moreover, in any year, 1
in 10 adults and
children experience
mental health
challenges serious
enough to affect
functioning in work,
family and school life.
The disease burden or
total cost of mental
illness exceeds that
caused by all cancers.
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/1-5-new-yorkers-
suffer-mental-health-disorders-report-article-1.2432656

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The Big
Question:
Is this
enough to
beautify and
enhance our
cities?
It’s a good
start, but
it’s not
enough!
You will see what
the future holds in
a few minutes!

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21st Century Mentality

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Biophilic City Designs is the new megatrend!
People are discovering what some great past
societies knew:
Mother Nature is the best healer!
Biophilic Designs are
already found in several
cities around the world.
Singapore is one of
the best examples!

33. Singapore is considered to be the
best Smart City in the world today,
not because they have installed 5G,
IoT, vision systems, sensors and
other technologies.
They are the best because they
took the holistic approach of
integrating the best ideas from
going green, sustainability,
resiliency … and aesthetics!
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An Example of terrible
Urban Planning: Cleveland

35. This was Cleveland’s
Waterfront for most of
the
20th Century.
One of the ugliest cities!
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36. https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2023/05/in-list-of-best-us-cities-to-live-cleveland-barely-cracks-top-100.html
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37. The ‘Doom Loop’ Hammering Middle America
(Explaining The Birth Of The Rust Belt)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/doom-loop-hammering-middle-america-095800515.html
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38. Excerpt From Report
• Many Midwestern cities relied on a single industry or even a single
company to buttress its economy. Cleveland (and Pittsburgh) had the steel
industry, Detroit was built by autos, (Toledo had the glass industry) and
Akron was home to tire manufacturers. So, in order to keep businesses
from leaving town, leaders began to single-mindedly focus(ed) on
attracting businesses — even if it meant making peoples' lives harder.
• "For the second half of the 20th century, most Midwestern cities really
focused on bending over backwards to accommodate businesses," Hicks
said. "They bulldozed neighborhoods, they did eminent domain for all
kinds of highways to get the products moved from factory to customer
more quickly. And they neglected the fundamentals that people have
liked about cities for 3,000 years, which is you can meet with people, you
can walk to a place to eat, it's safe."
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39. Excerpt From Report
• This urban transformation turned Midwestern downtowns into "nothing
but skyscrapers and highways," Amanda Weinstein, a professor of
economics at the University of Akron, told me. "The thought was, cities
are just for jobs and that's all they really are."
• After years of being ignored, workers' community ties began to fray, and
they started to look for greener pastures. Many Rust Belt residents left for
the Sun Belt, Weinstein said, which promised affordability and a higher
quality of life. Even those central-city residents who weren't lured by
warmer locales eventually migrated out of the city to leafier surrounding
suburbs.
• "The collapse of the Midwest is really the story of, 'As soon as the job went
away, I got the hell out of this shitty town,'" Hicks said.
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40. Excerpt From Report
• In order to draw in new residents, Hicks told me, there are two big things that need to be
addressed: adequate housing and services. Downtowns should create an environment
that attracts people, and that will in turn draw in employers and boost the economy.
Hicks and Weinstein wrote in a Brookings Institution report that the Midwest's history of
embracing loose regulations and tax incentives for businesses have hurt the provision of
services that would attract people to live in downtowns.
• "I don't think there's a commercial fix to this for cities," Hicks said. "It's a people
problem, not a business problem."
• Quality of life is largely determined by the services and amenities available in a
community. These include schools, safe public spaces, libraries, playgrounds,
transportation and relatively short commute times, and restaurants and retail.
Midwestern cities have largely failed to invest in these kinds of amenities, leaving their
downtowns devoid of anything but office space and industrial parks. To bring in new
residents and visitors rather than just workers, they need these attractions.
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41. 2023’s Global Livability Index: The Top 10
https://www.cnn.com/travel/worlds-most-liveable-cities-2023/index.html
• 1. Vienna, Austria
• 2. Copenhagen, Denmark
• 3. Melbourne, Australia
• 4. Sydney, Australia
• 5. Vancouver, Canada
• 6. Zurich, Switzerland
• 7. Calgary, Canada
• 7. Geneva, Switzerland
• 9. Toronto, Canada
• 10. Osaka, Japan
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42. What Some Major Cities Will Look
Like Next Century
What Some Major Cities Will Look
Like Next Century

43. But First, A
Reminder!
Cities can
change
dramatically in
just 100 years!
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Early 1900’s

44. NYC Houston
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45. Philadelphia Washington
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46. San Francisco Chicago
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47. Los Angeles Seattle
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48. San Diego Boston
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49. Paris
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It’s OK to abandon
existing cities.
It happened many times
before!

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63. Additional Reading/Viewing
• https://www.themanufacturer.com/articles/two-thirds-of-sme-
manufacturers-rank-sustainability-as-being-of-high-importance/
• https://cityinnovatorsforum.com/smart-cities-and-mobility-a-look-to-2049-
and-what-the-future-may-hold/
• https://www.cntraveler.com/video/watch/how-cities-of-the-future-are-
embracing-nature
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6mK-Ukr_ts
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsWr0LfM_uQ
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5o7RdlP4FY
• https://www.re-thinkingthefuture.com/rtf-fresh-perspectives/a1802-15-
simple-sustainable-practices-architects-can-impliment-in-any-project/
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Mistakes
are still
being
made even
with the
Cities Of
the Future!

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Malaysia paid well over $10M to a consulting
firm to get this drawing and proposal for its
Forest City that will sit across from Singapore!

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WHY?

67. Actual Picture Of Malaysia’s Forest City (The
City Of The Future)
New report shows
what’s become of
this $100 billion
‘city of the future’:
‘I didn’t see [any]
signs of life’
https://www.yahoo.com/
news/report-shows-
become-100-billion-
210000784.html
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Most
Malaysians
cannot afford to
move into
Forest City!

68. Other
Mistakes In
Urban
Planning
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69. https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2017/07/not-only-
are-ugly-buildings-messing-up-dallas-they-may-be-ruining-
your-health/
“Not Only
Ugly Are
Buildings
Messing Up
Dallas, They
May (Also)
Be Ruining
Your Health”
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70. Box-Looking
Buildings are
NOT Only
Ugly, But Also
An Attack On
Our Senses
And
Wellbeing!
People Need
Good
Aesthetics!
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This is the easiest way to kill the human spirit!
These deigns may be the most efficient
and most affordable for the masses, but
sooner or later society pays the price in
the form of:
• Desolation
• Depression
• Despair
• Anxiety
• Lethargy
• Apathy, aloofness
• Disinterest in innovation
• Disinterest in Government
• Disinterest in everything
• Sicknesses
• Mental illnesses, etc.
Most government leaders think that
people want just a roof over their heads!
They are in for a rude awakening!

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74. What Is Sustainability For Manufacturing
• Sustainability is a key business strategy that can bring increased
operational efficiency, a reduction in costs and waste, a reduced
carbon footprint, reputation strengthening and increased public trust.
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The 3 Ps per
OECD
People
Profit
Planet

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79. Circular
Economy

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The 5 R’s
For
Manufacturing

81. Coca-Cola bottling
site in Sidcup
starts production
of plastic bottles
with attached caps
to boost recycling
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Example:

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Proposed 2nd HQ in Arlington, VA

95. • Making work sustainable goes beyond
products, materials, process, systems …
and infrastructures.
• Sustainability must also address people.
• Happy People ➔ Sustainable
Employees ➔ Engaged, Creative,
Innovative, Fun, Immersive …
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Apple HQ

104. Additional Reading
• https://www.themanufacturer.com/channel/sustainability/
• https://www.manufacturingleadershipcouncil.com/boosting-
industrial-sustainability-through-transformative-technologies-11050/
• https://www.startus-insights.com/innovators-guide/discover-5-top-
sustainable-manufacturing-solutions/
• https://www.oecd.org/innovation/green/toolkit/aboutsustainablema
nufacturingandthetoolkit.htm
• https://www.unpri.org/investment-tools/the-esg-integration-
framework/3722.article
• https://crestline.com/c/best-sustainable-business-practices
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