National Outcome 13:
Sustainable Management
and Use of Environmental
and Natural Resources
• Integrate environmental
issues in economic and
social decision-making
policies and processes
• Develop and implement
mechanisms for biodiversity
conservation and
ecosystems
management
• Develop efficient and
effective governance
structures for environmental
management
• Manage all forms of waste
effectively.

Extracted from the text of Vision 2030:

http://www.vision2030.gov.jm/Portals/0/NDP/Vision%202030%20Jamaica%20NDP%20Full% 20No%20Cover%20(web).pdf

17 years to go.....

Ecotourism, ecological sustainability, sustainable development....The only use of 'sustainable' I hear is cash flow; while we worship gas guzzlers and clear forests for roads and air conditioned houses.

We are pursuing the American dream when many of our northern cousins dream about a little cottage in Negril. With a garden, solar power and water catchment.

I assume the current plan for TB is in synch with Vision 2030.

Celebrating Bio-diversity

JAMAICA has been ranked fifth among islands of the world in terms of endemic plants. The country also enjoys a high level of endemism for animal species.

The country's rich marine species diversity include species of fish, sea anemones, black and stony corals, mollusks, turtles, whales, dolphin, and manatee. In addition, nearly 30.1 per cent of country is covered with forests and there are 10 hydrological basins containing over 100 streams and rivers, in addition to several subterranean waterways, ponds, springs, and blue holes.

www.jamaicaobserver.com/environment/Celebrating-biodiversity_14310412

"Without knowing it, we utilize hundreds of products each day that owe their origin to wild animals and plants. Indeed our welfare is intimately tied up with the welfare of wildlife. Well may conservationists proclaim that by saving the lives of wild species, we may be saving our own."
- Norman Myers


With laissez-faire and price atomic,
Ecology's Uneconomic,
But with another kind of logic
Economy's Unecologic.
~ Kenneth E. Boulding



VIDEOS::Thomas Berry & The Earth Community:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0XBltUQ8qU

www.youtube.com/watch?v=36YyNsDfqbY


"We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the earth's functioning in its major life systems. Our ethical traditions know how to deal with suicide, homicide and even genocide, but these traditions collapse entirely when confronted with biocide, the killing of the life systems of the earth, and geocide, the devastation of the earth itself."
~ Thomas Berry (1914-2009...a Catholic priest of the Passionist order, cultural historian and ecotheologian (although cosmologist and geologian – or “Earth scholar” – were his preferred descriptors--Wiki).

‘The Universe Story is the quintessence of reality. We perceive the story. We put it in our language, the birds put it in theirs, and the trees put it in theirs. We can read the story of the universe in the trees. Everything tells the story of the universe. The winds tell the story, literally, not just imaginatively. The story has its imprint everywhere, and that is why it is so important to know the story. If you do not know the story, in a sense you do not know yourself; you do not know anything.
~ Thomas Berry

He would have been great friends with the priest who wrote that this island was his wife. Way back; when my pagan ggggg...grandparents were being enlightened.