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there is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at the flood leads on to fortune omitted all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries on such a full sea are we now afloat and we must take the current when it serves or lose our ventures william shakespeare the tragedy of julius caesar[close]
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published in great britain in 2012 by still pictures moving words ltd 199 shooters hill road london se3 8ul uk text © mark edwards and lloyd timberlake 2012 photographs © mark edwards/hard rain picture library and other photographers as credited cover image car dump montana usa © david woodfall/hard rain picture library 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 the rights of the authors have been asserted in accordance with the copyright designs and patents act 1988 a catalogue record for this book is available from the british library isbn 978-1-905588-04-6 all rights reserved no part of this publication may be reproduced transmitted or stored in a retrieval system in any form or by any means without permission in writing from still pictures moving words ltd application for which must be made to the publisher every effort has been made to contact copyright holders of material reproduced in this book any omissions will be rectified in subsequent printings if notice is given to the publisher the views expressed in this book are not necessarily those of the copyright holders design bailey and kenny managing editor mark reynolds scans by andrew jackson actpix ltd image preparation by stephen johnson copyrightimage ltd printed by pureprint group uckfield 4[close]
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special thanks to dag jonzon swedish international development cooperation agency sida peter bennett rainforest concern and annemiek hoogenboom and clara govier people s postcode lottery they made the whole earth exhibition possible i also want to thank joan walley mp chair of the environmental audit committee for her support and encouragement and for talking the message to a new audience mark edwards 5[close]
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contents 9 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 35 36 38 roadmap to a sustainable future the tasks ahead reinvent the model world a web of energy energy for all super-efficient homes population numbers and appetites meeting the needs of all `systematizing cities housing people future farming water scarce cheap and wasted the problem of stuff costing the earth changing the rules the web of life human rights the foundation of it all 40 42 54 62 64 65 66 68 70 73 74 the great migration a swarm to the cities and those who stay behind indigenous people getting personal what s the big idea choose fairtrade message in a bottle salad days where s the catch making waves 76 what ll you do now 78 81 85 86 88 about hard rain project about the contributors how this book was made forest credits by rainforest concern hard rain project partners 7[close]
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roadmap to a sustainable future bob dylan s song a hard rain s a-gonna fall inspired this book and exhibition i had the idea to illustrate each line of the lyrics and for thirty years i travelled around the world on assignments that allowed me to capture the photographs that turn dylan s prophetic words into images of the real world over the years i replaced many of my own images with pictures by friends and colleagues our photographs partner with dylan s eerily beautiful lyrics to bring global challenges alive in a memorable way some 15 million people on every continent have seen the hard rain exhibition since its launch at the eden project in may 2006 it has attracted many comments and much support from political and environmental leaders across the world even more rewarding are emails from people who have not previously engaged with the environmental debate whole earth aligning human systems and natural systems responds to their requests that we show solutions to the problems highlighted in hard rain lloyd timberlake sets out the technologies lifestyle approaches and development strategies that are available if we choose sustainable development it s a big if i once saw a homeless man in the early hours of a freezing cold morning in london take off his jeans to feed the fire he sat beside i was with a friend who was wearing two pairs of trousers he immediately took off the outer layer and gave them to the homeless man a wonderful gesture but this way of thinking won t solve the problems we now face habitat loss population peak oil around the corner water stress and global warming are problems that demand a radically new worldwide approach not gestures the question for visitors to this exhibition is there public support for the long-term measures to tackle all our problems together will enough people find ways to show political leaders that there are votes for sustainable development it will take a huge prolonged popular uprising to save our civilization mark edwards london march 2012 clockwise from top left royal botanic gardens kew lalbagh botanical garden bangalore sida exhibition for the eu committee of the regions malmö x2 st martin-in-the-fields trafalgar square london un headquarters new york royal botanic garden edinburgh 9[close]
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the tasks ahead fifty years ago when bob dylan wrote a hard rain s a-gonna fall the cuban missile crisis and the threat of nuclear oblivion hung over the world dylan said the lines were all beginnings of other songs he thought he would never live to write today hard rain speaks to us not of bombs but of other types of planetary death and it s not the future it s now dylan s song connects dissimilar strange things sad forests dead oceans broken tongues guns and sharp swords so too today all our problems all our solutions are connected you know about water scarcity dwindling forests extinctions acid oceans overfishing hunger poverty and that crossroads of all challenges climate change now think where those ever-accelerating trends will put the present generation of students in the coming decades before 2050 the world population will increase by 2 or 3 billion incomes will increase almost threefold the demand for food and goods and energy and shelter will surge now put us and nature together and the tasks ahead become obvious we have to align human systems and natural systems to create a whole earth get the carbon out of energy systems while bringing electricity to all adapt to the climate change and sea-level rise that is already unavoidable build or rebuild cities to make them super-efficient for the 67 billion people who will live in them by 2050 10[close]
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produce twice as much food as today without using any more land or water doing it in ways that bring dignity to the billions who will still be living on farms and in rural villages use water efficiently or by 2050 some 4.5 billion could be living in countries chronically short of water preserve the ecosystems that make life on earth possible kick the stuff out of progress do more with less people have used as much material metal wood plastic in the past fifty years as in all previous human history create the chance of satisfactory jobs or livelihoods for 9 billion give everyone the possibility of safe efficient housing provide healthcare for all redefine prosperity redefine living well increase empathy so that people understand and identify with one another globally rebuild democracy so that when voters vote for sustainable development it will make a difference we have many of the technologies and lifestyle approaches needed to create a sustainable civilization we are working on others the question is is there the political will to build and spread these budding solutions it will be a wrenching change and most of us who live them are comfortable with our carbon-based lifestyles it will take leadership from the top by politicians business and ngo leaders and it will take a grassroots leadership to create the bottom-up movement required to maintain the resolve of decision-makers car dump montana usa © david woodfall/hard rain picture library now read on 11[close]
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reinvent the modern world so-called global warming is just a secret ploy by wacko tree-huggers to make america energy independent clean our air and water improve the fuel efficiency of our vehicles kick-start 21st-century industries and make our cities safer and more liveable don t let them get away with it chip giller grist.org the climate is changing because human and natural systems are out of synch climate change alters water availability degrades ecosystems destroys biodiversity and acidifies oceans right now it is killing and impoverishing people in the poorest countries who have contributed least to the problem it could cut unirrigated farm yields by half in many african countries by 2020 a vast human disaster a historic eyeblink away it makes poor people poorer inuit who can no longer hunt on the ice the way they have for centuries and sahelian farmers south of the sahara who find it too hot and dry to keep farming extreme weather events are increasing in the rich countries causing huge property damage and loss of harvests there is no single solution but there are thousands of solutions small individual acts big government policy changes radically new forms of global governance and co-operation new and renewable energy systems cap-and-trade systems to establish a high price for carbon new technology standards new technology we ll need them all changed human minds must drive these and other changes toward a new world of human activity and human living everywhere all countries are developing countries now needing to develop new lower-carbon ways of heating air-conditioning moving around manufacturing farming and prospering 12[close]
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global carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise threatening to create more climateand heat-related disasters the onslaught of floods droughts wildfires windstorms blizzards and tornadoes that hit the us in 2011 were part of the ongoing increase in us disasters and a harbinger of things to come said the head of the us national oceanic and atmospheric administration how ironic that the endless quest to fill our lives with comfort and happiness may create a world without either austfonna ice cap svalbard archipelago norway © michael s nolan/robert harding specialist stock 13[close]
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